Re: TABLESAMPLE patch

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 4:30 AM, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 06/04/15 14:30, Petr Jelinek wrote:
>>>
>>> On 06/04/15 11:02, Simon Riggs wrote:
>>>
>>>> Are we ready for a final detailed review and commit?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I plan to send v12 in the evening with some additional changes that came
>>> up from Amit's comments + some improvements to error reporting. I think
>>> it will be ready then.
>>>
>>
>> Ok so here it is.
>>
>> Changes vs v11:
>> - changed input parameter list to expr_list
>> - improved error reporting, particularly when input parameters are wrong
>> - fixed SELECT docs to show correct syntax and mention that there can be
>> more sampling methods
>> - added name of the sampling method to the explain output - I don't like
>> the code much there as it has to look into RTE but on the other hand I don't
>> want to create new scan node just so it can hold the name of the sampling
>> method for explain
>> - made views containing TABLESAMPLE clause not autoupdatable
>> - added PageIsAllVisible() check before trying to check for tuple
>> visibility
>> - some typo/white space fixes
>
>
>
> Compiler warnings:
> explain.c: In function 'ExplainNode':
> explain.c:861: warning: 'sname' may be used uninitialized in this function
>
>
> Docs spellings:
>
> "PostgreSQL distrribution"  extra r.
>
> "The optional parameter REPEATABLE acceps"   accepts.  But I don't know that
> 'accepts' is the right word.  It makes the seed value sound optional to
> REPEATABLE.
>
> "each block having same chance"  should have "the" before "same".
>
> "Both of those sampling methods currently...".  I think it should be "these"
> not "those", as this sentence is immediately after their introduction, not
> at a distance.
>
> "...tuple contents and decides if to return in, or zero if none"  Something
> here is confusing. "return it", not "return in"?
>
> Other comments:
>
> Do we want tab completions for psql?  (I will never remember how to spell
> BERNOULLI).

Yes. I think so.

> Needs a Cat version bump.

The committer who will pick up this patch will normally do it.

Patch 1 is simple enough and looks fine to me.

Regarding patch 2...
I found for now some typos:
+  <title><structname>pg_tabesample_method</structname></title>
+        <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> distrribution:

Also, I am wondering if the sampling logic based on block analysis is
actually correct, for example for now this fails and I think that we
should support it:
=# with query_select as (select generate_series(1, 10) as a) select
query_select.a from query_select tablesample system (100.0/11)
REPEATABLE (9999);
ERROR:  42P01: relation "query_select" does not exist

How does the SQL spec define exactly TABLESAMPLE? Shouldn't we get a
sample from a result set?
Thoughts?
-- 
Michael