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Until now, UNION queries have often been suboptimal as the planner has only ever considered using an Append node and making the results unique by either using a Hash Aggregate, or by Sorting the entire Append result and running it through the Unique operator. Both of these methods always require reading all rows from the union subqueries. Here we adjust the union planner so that it can request that each subquery produce results in target list order so that these can be Merge Appended together and made unique with a Unique node. This can improve performance significantly as the union child can make use of the likes of btree indexes and/or Merge Joins to provide the top-level UNION with presorted input. This is especially good if the top-level UNION contains a LIMIT node that limits the output rows to a small subset of the unioned rows as cheap startup plans can be used. Author: David Rowley Reviewed-by: Richard Guo, Andy Fan Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpb_63XQodmxKUF8vb9M7CxyUyT4sWvEgqeQU-GB7QFoQ@mail.gmail.com
src/backend/parser/README Parser ====== This directory does more than tokenize and parse SQL queries. It also creates Query structures for the various complex queries that are passed to the optimizer and then executor. parser.c things start here scan.l break query into tokens scansup.c handle escapes in input strings gram.y parse the tokens and produce a "raw" parse tree analyze.c top level of parse analysis for optimizable queries parse_agg.c handle aggregates, like SUM(col1), AVG(col2), ... parse_clause.c handle clauses like WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY, ... parse_coerce.c handle coercing expressions to different data types parse_collate.c assign collation information in completed expressions parse_cte.c handle Common Table Expressions (WITH clauses) parse_expr.c handle expressions like col, col + 3, x = 3 or x = 4 parse_enr.c handle ephemeral named rels (trigger transition tables, ...) parse_func.c handle functions, table.column and column identifiers parse_merge.c handle MERGE parse_node.c create nodes for various structures parse_oper.c handle operators in expressions parse_param.c handle Params (for the cases used in the core backend) parse_relation.c support routines for tables and column handling parse_target.c handle the result list of the query parse_type.c support routines for data type handling parse_utilcmd.c parse analysis for utility commands (done at execution time) See also src/common/keywords.c, which contains the table of standard keywords and the keyword lookup function. We separated that out because various frontend code wants to use it too.