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Implement multivariate n-distinct coefficients

Add support for explicitly declared statistic objects (CREATE
STATISTICS), allowing collection of statistics on more complex
combinations that individual table columns.  Companion commands DROP
STATISTICS and ALTER STATISTICS ... OWNER TO / SET SCHEMA / RENAME are
added too.  All this DDL has been designed so that more statistic types
can be added later on, such as multivariate most-common-values and
multivariate histograms between columns of a single table, leaving room
for permitting columns on multiple tables, too, as well as expressions.

This commit only adds support for collection of n-distinct coefficient
on user-specified sets of columns in a single table.  This is useful to
estimate number of distinct groups in GROUP BY and DISTINCT clauses;
estimation errors there can cause over-allocation of memory in hashed
aggregates, for instance, so it's a worthwhile problem to solve.  A new
special pseudo-type pg_ndistinct is used.

(num-distinct estimation was deemed sufficiently useful by itself that
this is worthwhile even if no further statistic types are added
immediately; so much so that another version of essentially the same
functionality was submitted by Kyotaro Horiguchi:
https://postgr.es/m/20150828.173334.114731693.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
though this commit does not use that code.)

Author: Tomas Vondra.  Some code rework by Álvaro.
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed, David Rowley, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Jeff Janes,
    Ideriha Takeshi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/543AFA15.4080608@fuzzy.cz
    https://postgr.es/m/20170320190220.ixlaueanxegqd5gr@alvherre.pgsql
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Alvaro Herrera
2017-03-24 14:06:10 -03:00
parent f120b614e0
commit 7b504eb282
77 changed files with 3599 additions and 63 deletions

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@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ typedef struct RelationData
bool rd_isvalid; /* relcache entry is valid */
char rd_indexvalid; /* state of rd_indexlist: 0 = not valid, 1 =
* valid, 2 = temporarily forced */
bool rd_statvalid; /* is rd_statlist valid? */
/*
* rd_createSubid is the ID of the highest subtransaction the rel has
@@ -136,6 +137,9 @@ typedef struct RelationData
Oid rd_pkindex; /* OID of primary key, if any */
Oid rd_replidindex; /* OID of replica identity index, if any */
/* data managed by RelationGetStatExtList: */
List *rd_statlist; /* list of OIDs of extended stats */
/* data managed by RelationGetIndexAttrBitmap: */
Bitmapset *rd_indexattr; /* identifies columns used in indexes */
Bitmapset *rd_keyattr; /* cols that can be ref'd by foreign keys */