Обсуждение: pgsql: Sample postgres_fdw tables remotely during ANALYZE

Sample postgres_fdw tables remotely during ANALYZE

When collecting ANALYZE sample on foreign tables, postgres_fdw fetched
all rows and performed the sampling locally. For large tables this means
transferring and immediately discarding large amounts of data.

This commit allows the sampling to be performed on the remote server,
transferring only the much smaller sample. The sampling is performed
using the built-in TABLESAMPLE methods (system, bernoulli) or random()
function, depending on the remote server version.

Remote sampling can be enabled by analyze_sampling on the foreign server
and/or foreign table, with supported values 'off', 'auto', 'system',
'bernoulli' and 'random'. The default value is 'auto' which uses either
'bernoulli' (TABLESAMPLE method) or 'random' (for remote servers without
TABLESAMPLE support).

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8ad51b5f446b5c19ba2c0033a0f7b3180b3b6d95

Modified Files
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contrib/postgres_fdw/deparse.c                 |  72 ++++++++-
contrib/postgres_fdw/expected/postgres_fdw.out |  25 +++
contrib/postgres_fdw/option.c                  |  21 +++
contrib/postgres_fdw/postgres_fdw.c            | 202 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
contrib/postgres_fdw/postgres_fdw.h            |  15 ++
contrib/postgres_fdw/sql/postgres_fdw.sql      |  36 +++++
doc/src/sgml/postgres-fdw.sgml                 |  35 +++++
7 files changed, 397 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

On 2022-Dec-30, Tomas Vondra wrote:

> Sample postgres_fdw tables remotely during ANALYZE
> 
> When collecting ANALYZE sample on foreign tables, postgres_fdw fetched
> all rows and performed the sampling locally. For large tables this means
> transferring and immediately discarding large amounts of data.
> 
> This commit allows the sampling to be performed on the remote server,
> transferring only the much smaller sample. The sampling is performed
> using the built-in TABLESAMPLE methods (system, bernoulli) or random()
> function, depending on the remote server version.
> 
> Remote sampling can be enabled by analyze_sampling on the foreign server
> and/or foreign table, with supported values 'off', 'auto', 'system',
> 'bernoulli' and 'random'. The default value is 'auto' which uses either
> 'bernoulli' (TABLESAMPLE method) or 'random' (for remote servers without
> TABLESAMPLE support).

You left out the Discussion line, so here's the link:
https://postgr.es/m/151e835f-55d6-ddbc-b5b4-07ee606aba44@enterprisedb.com

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