postgresql/src/test
Tom Lane 7ca25b7de6 Fix neqjoinsel's behavior for semi/anti join cases.
Previously, this function estimated the selectivity as 1 minus eqjoinsel()
for the negator equality operator, regardless of join type (I think there
was an expectation that eqjoinsel would handle the join type).  But
actually this is completely wrong for semijoin cases: the fraction of the
LHS that has a non-matching row is not one minus the fraction of the LHS
that has a matching row.  In reality a semijoin with <> will nearly always
succeed: it can only fail when the RHS is empty, or it contains a single
distinct value that is equal to the particular LHS value, or the LHS value
is null.  The only one of those things we should have much confidence in
estimating is the fraction of LHS values that are null, so let's just take
the selectivity as 1 minus outer nullfrac.

Per coding convention, antijoin should be estimated the same as semijoin.

Arguably this is a bug fix, but in view of the lack of field complaints
and the risk of destabilizing plans, no back-patch.

Thomas Munro, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=270ze2hVxWkJw-5eKzc3AB4C9KpH3L2kih75R5pdSogg@mail.gmail.com
2017-11-29 22:00:37 -05:00
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authentication Post-PG 10 beta1 pgperltidy run 2017-05-17 19:01:23 -04:00
examples Update copyright via script for 2017 2017-01-03 13:48:53 -05:00
isolation Mark some more functions as pg_attribute_noreturn(). 2017-11-27 20:56:46 -05:00
ldap Log diagnostic messages if errors occur during LDAP auth. 2017-10-12 22:37:14 -04:00
locale Add a temp-install prerequisite to "check"-like targets not having one. 2017-11-05 18:51:08 -08:00
mb Fix MB regression tests for WAL-logging of hash indexes. 2017-03-15 07:25:36 -04:00
modules Back out the session_start and session_end hooks feature. 2017-11-16 11:35:02 -05:00
perl Remove wal_keep_segments from default configuration in PostgresNode.pm 2017-11-02 12:38:59 -04:00
recovery Remove redundant line from Makefile. 2017-11-16 15:30:56 -05:00
regress Fix neqjoinsel's behavior for semi/anti join cases. 2017-11-29 22:00:37 -05:00
ssl Support channel binding 'tls-unique' in SCRAM 2017-11-18 10:15:54 -05:00
subscription Don't reset additional columns on subscriber to NULL on UPDATE 2017-11-03 12:27:59 -04:00
thread Update typedefs.list and re-run pgindent 2017-11-29 09:24:24 -05:00
Makefile Add LDAP authentication test suite 2017-09-15 11:44:29 -04:00
README Add TAP tests for password-based authentication methods. 2017-03-17 11:34:16 +02:00

PostgreSQL tests
================

This directory contains a variety of test infrastructure as well as some of the
tests in PostgreSQL. Not all tests are here -- in particular, there are more in
individual contrib/ modules and in src/bin.

Not all these tests get run by "make check". Check src/test/Makefile to see
which tests get run automatically.

authentication/
  Tests for authentication

examples/
  Demonstration programs for libpq that double as regression tests via
  "make check"

isolation/
  Tests for concurrent behavior at the SQL level

locale/
  Sanity checks for locale data, encodings, etc

mb/
  Tests for multibyte encoding (UTF-8) support

modules/
  Extensions used only or mainly for test purposes, generally not suitable
  for installing in production databases

perl/
  Infrastructure for Perl-based TAP tests

recovery/
  Test suite for recovery and replication

regress/
  PostgreSQL's main regression test suite, pg_regress

ssl/
  Tests to exercise and verify SSL certificate handling

subscription/
  Tests for logical replication

thread/
  A thread-safety-testing utility used by configure