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Support GROUPING SETS, CUBE and ROLLUP.

This SQL standard functionality allows to aggregate data by different
GROUP BY clauses at once. Each grouping set returns rows with columns
grouped by in other sets set to NULL.

This could previously be achieved by doing each grouping as a separate
query, conjoined by UNION ALLs. Besides being considerably more concise,
grouping sets will in many cases be faster, requiring only one scan over
the underlying data.

The current implementation of grouping sets only supports using sorting
for input. Individual sets that share a sort order are computed in one
pass. If there are sets that don't share a sort order, additional sort &
aggregation steps are performed. These additional passes are sourced by
the previous sort step; thus avoiding repeated scans of the source data.

The code is structured in a way that adding support for purely using
hash aggregation or a mix of hashing and sorting is possible. Sorting
was chosen to be supported first, as it is the most generic method of
implementation.

Instead of, as in an earlier versions of the patch, representing the
chain of sort and aggregation steps as full blown planner and executor
nodes, all but the first sort are performed inside the aggregation node
itself. This avoids the need to do some unusual gymnastics to handle
having to return aggregated and non-aggregated tuples from underlying
nodes, as well as having to shut down underlying nodes early to limit
memory usage.  The optimizer still builds Sort/Agg node to describe each
phase, but they're not part of the plan tree, but instead additional
data for the aggregation node. They're a convenient and preexisting way
to describe aggregation and sorting.  The first (and possibly only) sort
step is still performed as a separate execution step. That retains
similarity with existing group by plans, makes rescans fairly simple,
avoids very deep plans (leading to slow explains) and easily allows to
avoid the sorting step if the underlying data is sorted by other means.

A somewhat ugly side of this patch is having to deal with a grammar
ambiguity between the new CUBE keyword and the cube extension/functions
named cube (and rollup). To avoid breaking existing deployments of the
cube extension it has not been renamed, neither has cube been made a
reserved keyword. Instead precedence hacking is used to make GROUP BY
cube(..) refer to the CUBE grouping sets feature, and not the function
cube(). To actually group by a function cube(), unlikely as that might
be, the function name has to be quoted.

Needs a catversion bump because stored rules may change.

Author: Andrew Gierth and Atri Sharma, with contributions from Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, Noah Misch, Tom Lane, Svenne Krap, Tomas
    Vondra, Erik Rijkers, Marti Raudsepp, Pavel Stehule
Discussion: CAOeZVidmVRe2jU6aMk_5qkxnB7dfmPROzM7Ur8JPW5j8Y5X-Lw@mail.gmail.com
This commit is contained in:
Andres Freund
2015-05-16 03:40:59 +02:00
parent 6e4415c6aa
commit f3d3118532
63 changed files with 5255 additions and 618 deletions

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@@ -271,6 +271,41 @@ typedef struct Aggref
int location; /* token location, or -1 if unknown */
} Aggref;
/*
* GroupingFunc
*
* A GroupingFunc is a GROUPING(...) expression, which behaves in many ways
* like an aggregate function (e.g. it "belongs" to a specific query level,
* which might not be the one immediately containing it), but also differs in
* an important respect: it never evaluates its arguments, they merely
* designate expressions from the GROUP BY clause of the query level to which
* it belongs.
*
* The spec defines the evaluation of GROUPING() purely by syntactic
* replacement, but we make it a real expression for optimization purposes so
* that one Agg node can handle multiple grouping sets at once. Evaluating the
* result only needs the column positions to check against the grouping set
* being projected. However, for EXPLAIN to produce meaningful output, we have
* to keep the original expressions around, since expression deparse does not
* give us any feasible way to get at the GROUP BY clause.
*
* Also, we treat two GroupingFunc nodes as equal if they have equal arguments
* lists and agglevelsup, without comparing the refs and cols annotations.
*
* In raw parse output we have only the args list; parse analysis fills in the
* refs list, and the planner fills in the cols list.
*/
typedef struct GroupingFunc
{
Expr xpr;
List *args; /* arguments, not evaluated but kept for
* benefit of EXPLAIN etc. */
List *refs; /* ressortgrouprefs of arguments */
List *cols; /* actual column positions set by planner */
Index agglevelsup; /* same as Aggref.agglevelsup */
int location; /* token location */
} GroupingFunc;
/*
* WindowFunc
*/