Re: Early WIP/PoC for inlining CTEs

From: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>
To: Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Early WIP/PoC for inlining CTEs
Date: 2019-02-26 11:41:51
Message-ID: 87wolmg60q.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
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So it turns out there's another case we have to check for, as reported
on IRC by Yaroslav Schekin (though I've simplified his query a little):

WITH RECURSIVE
x(a) AS ((VALUES ('a'),('b'))
UNION ALL
(WITH
z AS /*NOT*/ MATERIALIZED (SELECT a FROM x)
SELECT z.a || z1.a AS a FROM z CROSS JOIN z AS z1
WHERE length(z.a || z1.a) < 5))
SELECT * FROM x;

Here, uncommenting that NOT actually changes the result, from 22 rows to
4 rows, because we end up generating multiple worktable scans and the
recursion logic is not set up to handle that.

So what I think we need to do here is to forbid inlining if (a) the
refcount is greater than 1 and (b) the CTE in question contains,
recursively anywhere inside its rtable or the rtables of any of its
nested CTEs, a "self_reference" RTE. We only need to make this check if
we're somewhere (possibly nested) inside a recursive query, but I don't
know how practical it will be to test that condition at the point we do
inlining; doing it unconditionally will (I think) be harmless because
self_reference will not be set.

--
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)

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