postgresql/contrib
David Rowley 66c0185a3d Allow planner to use Merge Append to efficiently implement UNION
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
2024-03-25 14:31:14 +13:00
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amcheck amcheck: Normalize index tuples containing uncompressed varlena 2024-03-24 00:09:24 +02:00
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pageinspect Make the order of the header file includes consistent 2024-03-13 15:07:00 +01:00
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pg_stat_statements Use new overflow-safe integer comparison functions. 2024-02-16 14:05:36 -06:00
pg_surgery Error message capitalisation 2024-01-18 09:35:12 +01:00
pg_trgm Use new overflow-safe integer comparison functions. 2024-02-16 14:05:36 -06:00
pg_visibility Fix contrib/pg_visibility/meson.build 2024-03-14 13:38:44 +02:00
pg_walinspect Update copyright for 2024 2024-01-03 20:49:05 -05:00
pgcrypto pgcrypto: Fix incorrect argument vs PG_GETARG*() mappings 2024-02-14 08:59:05 +09:00
pgrowlocks Update copyright for 2024 2024-01-03 20:49:05 -05:00
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postgres_fdw Allow planner to use Merge Append to efficiently implement UNION 2024-03-25 14:31:14 +13:00
seg seg: Add test "security" in meson.build 2024-01-18 10:12:44 +09:00
sepgsql Update sepgsql expected output. 2024-03-05 08:45:45 -08:00
spi Update copyright for 2024 2024-01-03 20:49:05 -05:00
sslinfo Revert "Add notBefore and notAfter to SSL cert info display" 2024-03-22 22:58:41 +01:00
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tablefunc Make contrib/tablefunc crosstab() also check typmod 2024-03-09 17:32:32 -05:00
tcn Update copyright for 2024 2024-01-03 20:49:05 -05:00
test_decoding Add a slot synchronization function. 2024-02-14 09:45:36 +05:30
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xml2 Fix incompatibilities with libxml2 >= 2.12.0. 2024-01-29 12:06:13 -05:00
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README

The PostgreSQL contrib tree
---------------------------

This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree.  This does not preclude their
usefulness.

User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.

When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target.  You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.

Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types.  To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command.  In a fresh database,
you can simply do

    CREATE EXTENSION module_name;

See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.