Re: Foreign join pushdown vs EvalPlanQual - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Etsuro Fujita
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 12:15 PM
> To: Kaigai Kouhei(海外 浩平); Robert Haas
> Cc: PostgreSQL-development; 花田茂
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Foreign join pushdown vs EvalPlanQual
> 
> On 2015/09/29 9:13, Kouhei Kaigai wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> >> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Robert Haas
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 5:46 AM
> >> To: Kaigai Kouhei(海外 浩平)
> >> Cc: Etsuro Fujita; PostgreSQL-development; 花田茂
> >> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Foreign join pushdown vs EvalPlanQual
> >>
> >> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 3:34 AM, Kouhei Kaigai <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> wrote:
> >>> The attached patch allows FDW driver to handle EPQ recheck by its own
> >>> preferable way, even if it is alternative local join or ExecQual to
> >>> the expression being pushed down.
> 
> Thanks for the work, KaiGai-san!
> 
> >> Thanks.  I was all set to commit this, or at least part of it, when I
> >> noticed that we already have an FDW callback called RefetchForeignRow.
> >> We seem to be intending that this new callback should refetch the row
> >> from the foreign server and verify that any pushed-down quals apply to
> >> it.  But why can't RefetchForeignRow do that?  That seems to be what
> >> it's for.
> 
> Thanks for the comments, Robert!
> 
> I thought the same thing [1].  While I thought it was relatively easy to
> make changes to RefetchForeignRow that way for the foreign table case
> (scanrelid>0), I was not sure how hard it would be to do so for the
> foreign join case (scanrelid==0).  So, I proposed to leave that changes
> for 9.6.  I'll have a rethink on this issue along the lines of that
> approach.
>
Even if base relation case, is it really easy to do?

RefetchForeignRow() does not take ForeignScanState as its argument,
so it is not obvious to access its private field, isn't it?
ExecRowMark contains "rti" field, so it might be feasible to find out
the target PlanState using walker routine recently supported, although
it is not a simple enough.
Unless we don't have reference to the private field, it is not feasible
to access expression that was pushed down to the remote-side, therefore,
it does not allow to apply proper rechecks here.

In addition, it is problematic when scanrelid==0 because we have no
relevant ForeignScanState which represents the base relations, even
though ExecRowMark is associated with a particular base relation.
In case of scanrelid==0, EPQ recheck routine also have to ensure
the EPQ tuple is visible towards the join condition in addition to
the qualifier of base relation. These information is also stored within
private data field, so it has to have a reference to the private data
of ForeignScanState of the remote join (scanrelid==0) which contains
the target relation.

Could you introduce us (1) how to access private data field of
ForeignScanState from the RefetchForeignRow callback? (2) why it
is reasonable to implement than the callback on ForeignRecheck().

> Sorry for having had no response.  I was on vacation.
>
Me too. :-)

Thanks,
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NEC Business Creation Division / PG-Strom Project
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>