Thread: pgsql: Improve pruning of a default partition

pgsql: Improve pruning of a default partition

From
Alvaro Herrera
Date:
Improve pruning of a default partition

When querying a partitioned table containing a default partition, we
were wrongly deciding to include it in the scan too early in the
process, failing to exclude it in some cases.  If we reinterpret the
PruneStepResult.scan_default flag slightly, we can do a better job at
detecting that it can be excluded.  The change is that we avoid setting
the flag for that pruning step unless the step absolutely requires the
default partition to be scanned (in contrast with the previous
arrangement, which was to set it unless the step was able to prune it).
So get_matching_partitions() must explicitly check the partition that
each returned bound value corresponds to in order to determine whether
the default one needs to be included, rather than relying on the flag
from the final step result.

Author: Yuzuko Hosoya <hosoya.yuzuko@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/00e601d4ca86$932b8bc0$b982a340$@lab.ntt.co.jp

Branch
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REL_11_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/e3967a16d3a0b9c1c6ca20edccc2696e313127e9

Modified Files
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src/backend/partitioning/partprune.c          | 219 ++++++++++++--------------
src/include/partitioning/partbounds.h         |   1 -
src/test/regress/expected/partition_prune.out |  20 ++-
src/test/regress/sql/partition_prune.sql      |   1 +
4 files changed, 111 insertions(+), 130 deletions(-)