Updated tests: cases with bugs or which cannot be run
with the cursor-protocol were excluded with
"--disable_cursor_protocol"/"--enable_cursor_protocol"
Fix for v.10.5
This patch adds for "--ps-protocol" second execution
of queries "SELECT".
Also in this patch it is added ability to disable/enable
(--disable_ps2_protocol/--enable_ps2_protocol) second
execution for "--ps-prototocol" in testcases.
LooseScan code set opt_range_condition_rows to be the
MIN(loose_scan_plan->records, table->records)
totally ignoring possible quick range selects. If there was a quick
select $QUICK on another index with
$QUICK->records < loose_scan_plan->records
this would create a situation where
opt_range_condition_rows > $QUICK->records
which causes an assert in 10.6+ and potentially wrong query plan
choice in 10.5.
Fixed by making opt_range_condition_rows to be the minimum #rows
of any quick select.
Approved-by: Monty <monty@mariadb.org>
When a query does implicit grouping and join operation produces an empty
result set, a NULL-complemented row combination is generated.
However, constant table fields still show non-NULL values.
What happens in the is that end_send_group() is called with a
const row but without any rows matching the WHERE clause.
This last part is shown by 'join->first_record' not being set.
This causes item->no_rows_in_result() to be called for all items to reset
all sum functions to their initial state. However fields are not set
to NULL.
The used fix is to produce NULL-complemented records for constant tables
as well. Also, reset the constant table's records back in case we're
in a subquery which may get re-executed.
An alternative fix would have item->no_rows_in_result() also work
with Item_field objects.
There is some other issues with the code:
- join->no_rows_in_result_called is used but never set.
- Tables that are used with group functions are not properly marked as
maybe_null, which is required if the table rows should be regarded as
null-complemented (not existing).
- The code that tries to detect if mixed_implicit_grouping should be set
didn't take into account all usage of fields and sum functions.
- Item_func::restore_to_before_no_rows_in_result() called the wrong
function.
- join->clear() does not use a table_map argument to clear_tables(),
which caused it to ignore constant tables.
- unclear_tables() does not correctly restore status to what is
was before clear_tables().
Main bug fix was to always use a table_map argument to clear_tables() and
always use join->clear() and clear_tables() together with unclear_tables().
Other fixes:
- Fixed Item_func::restore_to_before_no_rows_in_result()
- Set 'join->no_rows_in_result_called' when no_rows_in_result_set()
is called.
- Removed not used argument from setup_end_select_func().
- More code comments
- Ensure that end_send_group() modifies the same fields as are in the
result set.
- Changed return_zero_rows() to use pointers instead of references,
similar to the rest of the code.
Reviewer: Sergei Petrunia <sergey@mariadb.com>
When a query does implicit grouping and join operation produces an empty
result set, a NULL-complemented row combination is generated.
However, constant table fields still show non-NULL values.
What happens in the is that end_send_group() is called with a
const row but without any rows matching the WHERE clause.
This last part is shown by 'join->first_record' not being set.
This causes item->no_rows_in_result() to be called for all items to reset
all sum functions to their initial state. However fields are not set
to NULL.
The used fix is to produce NULL-complemented records for constant tables
as well. Also, reset the constant table's records back in case we're
in a subquery which may get re-executed.
An alternative fix would have item->no_rows_in_result() also work
with Item_field objects.
There is some other issues with the code:
- join->no_rows_in_result_called is used but never set.
- Tables that are used with group functions are not properly marked as
maybe_null, which is required if the table rows should be regarded as
null-complemented (not existing).
- The code that tries to detect if mixed_implicit_grouping should be set
didn't take into account all usage of fields and sum functions.
- Item_func::restore_to_before_no_rows_in_result() called the wrong
function.
- join->clear() does not use a table_map argument to clear_tables(),
which caused it to ignore constant tables.
- unclear_tables() does not correctly restore status to what is
was before clear_tables().
Main bug fix was to always use a table_map argument to clear_tables() and
always use join->clear() and clear_tables() together with unclear_tables().
Other fixes:
- Fixed Item_func::restore_to_before_no_rows_in_result()
- Set 'join->no_rows_in_result_called' when no_rows_in_result_set()
is called.
- Removed not used argument from setup_end_select_func().
- More code comments
- Ensure that end_send_group() modifies the same fields as are in the
result set.
- Changed return_zero_rows() to use pointers instead of references,
similar to the rest of the code.
A GROUP BY query which uses "MIN(pk)" and has "pk<>const" in the
WHERE clause would produce wrong result when handled with "Using index
for group-by". Here "pk" column is the table's primary key.
The problem was introduced by fix for MDEV-23634. It made the range
optimizer to not produce ranges for conditions in form "pk != const".
However, LooseScan code requires that the optimizer is able to
convert the condition on the MIN/MAX column into an equivalent range.
The range is used to locate the row that has the MIN/MAX value.
LooseScan checks this in check_group_min_max_predicates(). This fix
makes the code in that function to take into account that "pk != const"
does not produce a range.
This includes all test changes from
"Changing all cost calculation to be given in milliseconds"
and forwards.
Some of the things that caused changes in the result files:
- As part of fixing tests, I added 'echo' to some comments to be able to
easier find out where things where wrong.
- MATERIALIZED has now a higher cost compared to X than before. Because
of this some MATERIALIZED types have changed to DEPENDEND SUBQUERY.
- Some test cases that required MATERIALIZED to repeat a bug was
changed by adding more rows to force MATERIALIZED to happen.
- 'Filtered' in SHOW EXPLAIN has in many case changed from 100.00 to
something smaller. This is because now filtered also takes into
account the smallest possible ref access and filters, even if they
where not used. Another reason for 'Filtered' being smaller is that
we now also take into account implicit filtering done for subqueries
using FIRSTMATCH.
(main.subselect_no_exists_to_in)
This is caluculated in best_access_path() and stored in records_out.
- Table orders has changed because more accurate costs.
- 'index' and 'ALL' for small tables has changed to use 'range' or
'ref' because of optimizer_scan_setup_cost.
- index can be changed to 'range' as 'range' optimizer assumes we don't
have to read the blocks from disk that range optimizer has already read.
This can be confusing in the case where there is no obvious where clause
but instead there is a hidden 'key_column > NULL' added by the optimizer.
(main.subselect_no_exists_to_in)
- Scan on primary clustered key does not report 'Using Index' anymore
(It's a table scan, not an index scan).
- For derived tables, the number of rows is now 100 instead of 2,
which can be seen in EXPLAIN.
- More tests have "Using index for group by" as the cost of this
optimization is now more correct (lower).
- A primary key could be preferred for a normal key, even if it would
access more rows, as it's faster to do 1 lokoup and 3 'index_next' on a
clustered primary key than one lookup trough a secondary.
(main.stat_tables_innodb)
Notes:
- There was a 4.7% more calls to best_extension_by_limited_search() in
the main.greedy_optimizer test. However examining the test results
it looked that the plans where slightly better (eq_ref where more
chained together) so I assume this is ok.
- I have verified a few test cases where there was notable/unexpected
changes in the plan and in all cases the new optimizer plans where
faster. (main.greedy_optimizer and some others)
The idea is that when doing a tree dive (once per group), we need to
compare key values, which is fast. For each new group, we have to
compare the full where clause for the row.
Compared to original code, the cost of group_min_max() has slightly
increased which affects some test with only a few rows.
main.group_min_max and main.distinct have been modified to show the
effect of the change.
The patch also adjust the number of groups in case of quick selects:
- For simple WHERE clauses, ensure that we have at least as many groups
as we have conditions on the used group-by key parts.
The assumption is that each condition will create at least one group.
- Ensure that there are no more groups than rows found by quick_select
Test changes:
- For some small tables there has been a change of
Using index for group-by -> Using index for group-by (scanning)
Range -> Index and Using index for group-by -> Using index
The problem was that when storing rows into a temporary table,
MIN/MAX items that where marked as constants (as theire value had
been computed at start of query) would be reset.
Fixed by not reseting MIN/MAX items that are marked as const in
Item_sum_min_max::clear().
The problem was that "group_min_max optimization" does not work if
some aggregate functions, like COUNT(*), is used.
The function get_best_group_min_max() is using the join->sum_funcs
array to check which aggregate functions are used.
The bug was that aggregates in HAVING where not yet added to
join->sum_funcs at the time get_best_group_min_max() was called.
Fixed by populate join->sum_funcs already in prepare, which means that
all sum functions will be in join->sum_funcs in get_best_group_min_max().
A benefit of this approach is that we can remove several calls to
make_sum_func_list() from the code and simplify the function.
I removed some wrong setting of 'sort_and_group'.
This variable is set when alloc_group_fields() is called, as part
of allocating the cache needed by end_send_group() and does not need
to be set by other functions.
One problematic thing was that Spider is using *join->sum_funcs to detect
at which stage the optimizer is and do internal calculations of aggregate
functions. Updating join->sum_funcs early caused Spider to fail when trying
to find min/max values in opt_sum_query().
Fixed by temporarily resetting sum_funcs during opt_sum_query().
Reviewer: Sergei Petrunia
The problem was that get_best_group_min_max() did not check if fields used
by the "group_min_max optimization" where used in sub queries.
Because of this, it did not detect that a key (b,a) was used in the WHERE
clause for the statement:
SELECT DISTINCT b FROM t1 WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT 1 FROM DUAL WHERE a > 1 ).
Fixed by also traversing the sub queries when checking if a field is used.
This disables group_min_max_optimization for the above query.
Reviewer: Sergei Petrunia
A heuristic in best_access_path says that if for an index
ref access involved key parts which are greater than equal to that
for range access, then range access should not be considered.
The assumption made by this heuristic does not hold when
the range optimizer opted to use the group-by min-max optimization.
So the fix here would be to not consider the heuristic if
the range optimizer picked the usage of group-by min-max
optimization.
- multi_range_read_info_const now uses the new records_in_range interface
- Added handler::avg_io_cost()
- Don't calculate avg_io_cost() in get_sweep_read_cost if avg_io_cost is
not 1.0. In this case we trust the avg_io_cost() from the handler.
- Changed test_quick_select to use TIME_FOR_COMPARE instead of
TIME_FOR_COMPARE_IDX to align this with the rest of the code.
- Fixed bug when using test_if_cheaper_ordering where we didn't use
keyread if index was changed
- Fixed a bug where we didn't use index only read when using order-by-index
- Added keyread_time() to HEAP.
The default keyread_time() was optimized for blocks and not suitable for
HEAP. The effect was the HEAP prefered table scans over ranges for btree
indexes.
- Fixed get_sweep_read_cost() for HEAP tables
- Ensure that range and ref have same cost for simple ranges
Added a small cost (MULTI_RANGE_READ_SETUP_COST) to ranges to ensure
we favior ref for range for simple queries.
- Fixed that matching_candidates_in_table() uses same number of records
as the rest of the optimizer
- Added avg_io_cost() to JT_EQ_REF cost. This helps calculate the cost for
HEAP and temporary tables better. A few tests changed because of this.
- heap::read_time() and heap::keyread_time() adjusted to not add +1.
This was to ensure that handler::keyread_time() doesn't give
higher cost for heap tables than for normal tables. One effect of
this is that heap and derived tables stored in heap will prefer
key access as this is now regarded as cheap.
- Changed cost for index read in sql_select.cc to match
multi_range_read_info_const(). All index cost calculation is now
done trough one function.
- 'ref' will now use quick_cost for keys if it exists. This is done
so that for '=' ranges, 'ref' is prefered over 'range'.
- scan_time() now takes avg_io_costs() into account
- get_delayed_table_estimates() uses block_size and avg_io_cost()
- Removed default argument to test_if_order_by_key(); simplifies code
This patch contains a full implementation of the optimization
that allows to use in-memory rowid / primary filters built for range
conditions over indexes. In many cases usage of such filters reduce
the number of disk seeks spent for fetching table rows.
In this implementation the choice of what possible filter to be applied
(if any) is made purely on cost-based considerations.
This implementation re-achitectured the partial implementation of
the feature pushed by Galina Shalygina in the commit
8d5a11122c.
Besides this patch contains a better implementation of the generic
handler function handler::multi_range_read_info_const() that
takes into account gaps between ranges when calculating the cost of
range index scans. It also contains some corrections of the
implementation of the handler function records_in_range() for MyISAM.
This patch supports the feature for InnoDB and MyISAM.