Re: Optimizer Doesn't Push Down Where Expressions on Rollups

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 10:06 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Richard Guo <guofenglinux(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > In your case, the WHERE clauses would get pushed down into the subquery
> > for both queries, with/without the ROLLUP. But since the subquery uses
> > grouping/grouping sets, the WHERE clauses would be put in HAVING of the
> > subquery.
>
> Right, we do successfully push the clauses into HAVING of the subquery.
>
> > Then when we plan for the subquery, we will decide whether a HAVING
> > clause can be transfered into WHERE. Usually we do not do that if there
> > are any nonempty grouping sets. Because if any referenced column isn't
> > present in all the grouping sets, moving such a clause into WHERE would
> > potentially change the results.
>
> Yeah. I think that it might be safe if the proposed clause can
> be proven strict for (some subset of?) the grouping columns, because
> that would eliminate the rollup grouping sets where those columns
> come out NULL because they aren't being grouped on. (This could then
> also factor into throwing away those grouping sets, perhaps.)
>

This seems correct to me. If we can prove the HAVING clause is strict
for some grouping columns, then we can throw away the grouping sets that
do not contain these grouping columns, since their results would be
eliminated by this HAVING clause. After that we can move this HAVING
clause to WHERE. I'm thinking about this example:

select c1, c2, sum(c4) from t group by
grouping sets ((c1, c2), (c2, c3), (c1, c4)) having c2 = 2;

select c1, c2, sum(c4) from t group by
grouping sets ((c1, c2), (c2, c3)) having c2 = 2;

select c1, c2, sum(c4) from t where c2 = 2 group by
grouping sets ((c1, c2), (c2, c3));

For non-strict HAVING clause, if its referenced columns are present in
all the grouping sets, I think we should also be able to move it to
WHERE.

Thanks
Richard