Re: pg_stats and range statistics

On 1/22/23 22:33, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 07:19:41PM +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>> On 1/21/23 19:53, Egor Rogov wrote:
>>> Hi Tomas,
>>> On 21.01.2023 00:50, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>>>> This simply adds two functions, accepting/producing anyarray - one for
>>>> lower bounds, one for upper bounds. I don't think it can be done with a
>>>> plain subquery (or at least I don't know how).
>>>
>>> Anyarray is an alien to SQL, so functions are well justified here. What
>>> makes me a bit uneasy is two almost identical functions. Should we
>>> consider other options like a function with an additional parameter or a
>>> function returning an array of bounds arrays (which is somewhat
>>> wasteful, but probably it doesn't matter much here)?
>>>
>>
>> I thought about that, but I think the alternatives (e.g. a single
>> function with a parameter determining which boundary to return). But I
>> don't think it's better.
>
> What about a common function, maybe called like:
>
> ranges_upper_bounds(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
> {
> AnyArrayType *array = PG_GETARG_ANY_ARRAY_P(0);
> Oid element_type = AARR_ELEMTYPE(array);
> TypeCacheEntry *typentry;
>
> /* Get information about range type; note column might be a domain */
> typentry = range_get_typcache(fcinfo, getBaseType(element_type));
>
> return ranges_bounds_common(typentry, array, false);
> }
>
> That saves 40 LOC.
>

Thanks, that's better. But I'm still not sure it's a good idea to add
function with anyarray argument, when we need it to be an array of
ranges ...

I wonder if we have other functions doing something similar, i.e.
accepting a polymorphic type and then imposing additional restrictions
on it.

> Shouldn't this add some sql tests ?
>

Yeah, I guess we should have a couple tests calling these functions on
different range arrays.

This reminds me lower()/upper() have some extra rules about handling
empty ranges / infinite boundaries etc. These functions should behave
consistently (as if we called lower() in a loop) and I'm pretty sure
that's not the current state.

regards

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