* MCOL-4234: improve GROUP BY and ORDER BY interaction (#3194)
This patch fixes the problem in MCOL-4234 and also generally improves
behavior of GROUP BY.
It does so by introducing a "dummy" aggregate and by wrapping columns
into it. This allows for columns that are not in GROUP BY to be used
more freely, for example, in SELECT * FROM tbl GROUP BY col - all
columns that are not "col" will be wrapped into an aggregate and query
will proceed to execution.
The dummy aggregate itself does nothing more than remember last value
passed into it.
There also an additional error message that tries to explain what types
of expressions can be wrapped into an aggregate.
* MCOL-5772: incorrect ORDER BY ordering for a columns not in GROUP BY (#3214)
When ORDER BY column is not in GROUP BY, is not an aggregate and there
is a SELECT column that is also not an aggregate, there was a problem:
ordering happened on the SELECTed column, not ORDERed one.
This patch fixes that particular problem and also performs some tidying
around newly added aggregate.
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Co-authored-by: Leonid Fedorov <79837786+mariadb-LeonidFedorov@users.noreply.github.com>
This patch improves handling of NULLs in textual fields in ColumnStore.
Previously empty strings were considered NULLs and it could be a problem
if data scheme allows for empty strings. It was also one of major
reasons of behavior difference between ColumnStore and other engines in
MariaDB family.
Also, this patch fixes some other bugs and incorrect behavior, for
example, incorrect comparison for "column <= ''" which evaluates to
constant True for all purposes before this patch.
* toCppCode for ParseTree and TreeNode
* generated tree is compiling
* Put tree constructors into tests
* Minor fixes
* Fixed parse + some constructors
* Fixed includes, removed debug and old data
* Hopefully fix clang errors
* Forgot an override
* More overrides
Part 1:
As part of MCOL-3776 to address synchronization issue while accessing
the fTimeZone member of the Func class, mutex locks were added to the
accessor and mutator methods. However, this slows down processing
of TIMESTAMP columns in PrimProc significantly as all threads across
all concurrently running queries would serialize on the mutex. This
is because PrimProc only has a single global object for the functor
class (class derived from Func in utils/funcexp/functor.h) for a given
function name. To fix this problem:
(1) We remove the fTimeZone as a member of the Func derived classes
(hence removing the mutexes) and instead use the fOperationType
member of the FunctionColumn class to propagate the timezone values
down to the individual functor processing functions such as
FunctionColumn::getStrVal(), FunctionColumn::getIntVal(), etc.
(2) To achieve (1), a timezone member is added to the
execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::ColType class.
Part 2:
Several functors in the Funcexp code call dataconvert::gmtSecToMySQLTime()
and dataconvert::mySQLTimeToGmtSec() functions for conversion between seconds
since unix epoch and broken-down representation. These functions in turn call
the C library function localtime_r() which currently has a known bug of holding
a global lock via a call to __tz_convert. This significantly reduces performance
in multi-threaded applications where multiple threads concurrently call
localtime_r(). More details on the bug:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16145
This bug in localtime_r() caused processing of the Functors in PrimProc to
slowdown significantly since a query execution causes Functors code to be
processed in a multi-threaded manner.
As a fix, we remove the calls to localtime_r() from gmtSecToMySQLTime()
and mySQLTimeToGmtSec() by performing the timezone-to-offset conversion
(done in dataconvert::timeZoneToOffset()) during the execution plan
creation in the plugin. Note that localtime_r() is only called when the
time_zone system variable is set to "SYSTEM".
This fix also required changing the timezone type from a std::string to
a long across the system.