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Avoid using a cursor in plpgsql's RETURN QUERY statement.

plpgsql has always executed the query given in a RETURN QUERY command
by opening it as a cursor and then fetching a few rows at a time,
which it turns around and dumps into the function's result tuplestore.
The point of this was to keep from blowing out memory with an oversized
SPITupleTable result (note that while a tuplestore can spill tuples
to disk, SPITupleTable cannot).  However, it's rather inefficient, both
because of extra data copying and because of executor entry/exit
overhead.  In recent versions, a new performance problem has emerged:
use of a cursor prevents use of a parallel plan for the executed query.

We can improve matters by skipping use of a cursor and having the
executor push result tuples directly into the function's result
tuplestore.  However, a moderate amount of new infrastructure is needed
to make that idea work:

* We can use the existing tstoreReceiver.c DestReceiver code to funnel
executor output to the tuplestore, but it has to be extended to support
plpgsql's requirement for possibly applying a tuple conversion map.

* SPI needs to be extended to allow use of a caller-supplied
DestReceiver instead of its usual receiver that puts tuples into
a SPITupleTable.  Two new API calls are needed to handle both the
RETURN QUERY and RETURN QUERY EXECUTE cases.

I also felt that I didn't want these new API calls to use the legacy
method of specifying query parameter values with "char" null flags
(the old ' '/'n' convention); rather they should accept ParamListInfo
objects containing the parameter type and value info.  This required
a bit of additional new infrastructure since we didn't yet have any
parse analysis callback that would interpret $N parameter symbols
according to type data supplied in a ParamListInfo.  There seems to be
no harm in letting makeParamList install that callback by default,
rather than leaving a new ParamListInfo's parserSetup hook as NULL.
(Indeed, as of HEAD, I couldn't find anyplace that was using the
parserSetup field at all; plpgsql was using parserSetupArg for its
own purposes, but parserSetup seemed to be write-only.)

We can actually get plpgsql out of the business of using legacy null
flags altogether, and using ParamListInfo instead of its ad-hoc
PreparedParamsData structure; but this requires inventing one more
SPI API call that can replace SPI_cursor_open_with_args.  That seems
worth doing, though.

SPI_execute_with_args and SPI_cursor_open_with_args are now unused
anywhere in the core PG distribution.  Perhaps someday we could
deprecate/remove them.  But cleaning up the crufty bits of the SPI
API is a task for a different patch.

Per bug #16040 from Jeremy Smith.  This is unfortunately too invasive to
consider back-patching.  Patch by me; thanks to Hamid Akhtar for review.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16040-eaacad11fecfb198@postgresql.org
This commit is contained in:
Tom Lane
2020-06-12 12:14:32 -04:00
parent aaf8c99050
commit 2f48ede080
9 changed files with 800 additions and 151 deletions

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@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ extern int SPI_execute_plan(SPIPlanPtr plan, Datum *Values, const char *Nulls,
extern int SPI_execute_plan_with_paramlist(SPIPlanPtr plan,
ParamListInfo params,
bool read_only, long tcount);
extern int SPI_execute_plan_with_receiver(SPIPlanPtr plan,
ParamListInfo params,
bool read_only, long tcount,
DestReceiver *dest);
extern int SPI_exec(const char *src, long tcount);
extern int SPI_execp(SPIPlanPtr plan, Datum *Values, const char *Nulls,
long tcount);
@@ -102,6 +106,10 @@ extern int SPI_execute_with_args(const char *src,
int nargs, Oid *argtypes,
Datum *Values, const char *Nulls,
bool read_only, long tcount);
extern int SPI_execute_with_receiver(const char *src,
ParamListInfo params,
bool read_only, long tcount,
DestReceiver *dest);
extern SPIPlanPtr SPI_prepare(const char *src, int nargs, Oid *argtypes);
extern SPIPlanPtr SPI_prepare_cursor(const char *src, int nargs, Oid *argtypes,
int cursorOptions);
@@ -150,6 +158,11 @@ extern Portal SPI_cursor_open_with_args(const char *name,
bool read_only, int cursorOptions);
extern Portal SPI_cursor_open_with_paramlist(const char *name, SPIPlanPtr plan,
ParamListInfo params, bool read_only);
extern Portal SPI_cursor_parse_open_with_paramlist(const char *name,
const char *src,
ParamListInfo params,
bool read_only,
int cursorOptions);
extern Portal SPI_cursor_find(const char *name);
extern void SPI_cursor_fetch(Portal portal, bool forward, long count);
extern void SPI_cursor_move(Portal portal, bool forward, long count);

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@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ extern DestReceiver *CreateTuplestoreDestReceiver(void);
extern void SetTuplestoreDestReceiverParams(DestReceiver *self,
Tuplestorestate *tStore,
MemoryContext tContext,
bool detoast);
bool detoast,
TupleDesc target_tupdesc,
const char *map_failure_msg);
#endif /* TSTORE_RECEIVER_H */