pgsql: Fix O(N^2) performance issue in pg_publication_tables view.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Fix O(N^2) performance issue in pg_publication_tables view.
Date: 2019-05-22 15:47:12
Message-ID: E1hTTSS-0000zJ-R9@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix O(N^2) performance issue in pg_publication_tables view.

The original coding of this view relied on a correlated IN sub-query.
Our planner is not very bright about correlated sub-queries, and even
if it were, there's no way for it to know that the output of
pg_get_publication_tables() is duplicate-free, making the de-duplicating
semantics of IN unnecessary. Hence, rewrite as a LATERAL sub-query.
This provides circa 100X speedup for me with a few hundred published
tables (the whole regression database), and things would degrade as
roughly O(published_relations * all_relations) beyond that.

Because the rules.out expected output changes, force a catversion bump.
Ordinarily we might not want to do that post-beta1; but we already know
we'll be doing a catversion bump before beta2 to fix pg_statistic_ext
issues, so it's pretty much free to fix it now instead of waiting for v13.

Per report and fix suggestion from PegoraroF10.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1551385426763-0.post@n3.nabble.com

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/166f69f769c83ef8759d905bf7f1a9aa1d97a340

Modified Files
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src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql | 7 ++++---
src/include/catalog/catversion.h | 2 +-
src/test/regress/expected/rules.out | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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