Re: 1 Status of vertical clustered index - 2 Join using (fk_constraint) suggestion - 3 Status of pgsql's parser autonomization

On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 10:38:29PM +0100, maxzor wrote:
>Hello,
>
>1. I was told that M$ SQLServer provides huge performance deltas over
>PostgreSQL when dealing with index-unaligned queries :
>create index i on t (a,b, c);
>select * from t where b=... and c=...;

Perhaps index-only scans might help here, but that generally does not
work for "SELECT *" queries.

>Columnar storage has been tried by various companies, CitusData,
>EnterpriseDB, 2ndQuadrant, Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres. It has been
>discussed quite a lot, last thread that I was able to find being in
>2017, https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAJrrPGfaC7WC9NK6PTTy6YN-NN%2BhCy8xOLAh2doYhVg5d6HsAA%40mail.gmail.com
>where Fujitsu's patch made it quite far.
>What is the status on such a storage manager extension interface ?
>

I think you're looking for threads about zheap and (especially)
zedstore. Those are two "storage manager" implementations various people
are currently working on. Neither of those is likely to make it into
pg13, though :-(

>2. What do you think of adding a new syntax : 'from t join t2 using
>(fk_constraint)' ? And further graph algorithms to make automatic
>joins ?
>Both 'natural join' and 'using (column_name)' are useless when the
>columns are not the same in source and destination.
>Plus it is often the case that the fk_constraints are over numerous
>columns, even though this is usually advised against. But when this
>case happens there will be a significant writing speedup.

I'm not really sure what's the point / benefit here. Initially it seemed
you simply propose a syntax saying "do a join using the columns in the
FK constraint" but it's unclear to me how this implies any writing
speedup?

>I have been bothered by this to the point that I developed a
>graphical-query-builder plugin for pgModeler,
>https://github.com/maxzor/plugins/tree/master/graphicalquerybuilder#automatic-join-mode
>,
>but I believe such a syntax would be much better in the core!
>

Hm, maybe.

>3. What is the status of making the internal parser of PostgreSQL less
>coupled to the core, and easier to cherry-pick from outside?
>It would be great to incorporate it into companion projects :
>pgAdmin4, pgModeler, pgFormatter...
>

I have no idea what you mean by "less coupled" here. What are the
requirements / use cases you're thinking about?

FWIW I think it's pretty bad idea to post questions about three very
different topics into a single pgsql-hackers thread. That'll just lead
to a lot of confusion.

regards

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