Fix #83: generate_series aggregates, and the two costs underneath - #84
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…r#83) `SELECT sum(i) FROM generate_series(1, 100000000)` took 11.4s — slower than C Postgres (8.6s) and ~110x slower than DuckDB/ClickHouse. The cost is not the arithmetic. FunctionNext is C-exact, so the first pull drains the whole SRF into a Tuplestore — 100M heap tuples, spilled to disk past work_mem — and every later pull reads one tuple back out. The store buys backward scans, rescans and WITH ORDINALITY; a one-pass plain aggregate uses none of them. nodefunctionscan::series recognises a `generate_series(int4|int8)` scan and generates its values in batches instead. The SRF's own `GenerateSeries*::new` still opens the feed, so argument evaluation, the strict-NULL contract (an empty set, never a row) and the step-zero 22023 are unchanged and land at the same point in the pull. Only the emission loop is new, and it is a counted form (`series_len`) rather than the per-value state machine, so the batch loop carries no branch and vectorizes. `matches_srf_state_machine` pins the two against each other over the direction, inexact-span and next-value-overflow corners at six batch grains. lanev2::series_fold consumes it: an AGG_PLAIN node folds each staged batch through `lanefold::fold_batch` — the same kernel the heap plain-fold feed runs. Admission pins the one thing a one-column synthetic lane can get wrong that a staged heap batch cannot: every lane read must be column 0, at the generator's own datum width. Everything outside the admitted shape refuses and falls through to the unchanged store path — WITH ORDINALITY, ROWS FROM, a qual or projection on the scan, EXPLAIN ANALYZE, backward-capable scans, FILTERed, guarded or residual transitions, GROUP BY, and any non-aggregate consumer. Every refusal point sits before the arguments are evaluated, so a volatile argument is never evaluated twice; a rescan replays the retained generator rather than re-running the SRF, which is what C's chgParam-NULL rescan does with the store. Local measurement — this laptop, -Copt-level=3, no LTO, single-threaded, in-process wire path; not a fleet number (official numbers come from release/dist on Graviton). sum over generate_series(1, 100000000): 11,397ms on the issue's box -> 164ms here. Below the spill threshold, where the old path is purely in-memory, the A/B at 100k rows is 74ms -> 7ms. Knob PGRUST_LANE_V2_SERIESFOLD, default ON; the permanent `=0`/`off` spelling is the kill switch and byte-restores the store path. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HubH4aHTikSmpD6LV1JyFU
`FuncCallContext::user_fctx` was `Option<Box<dyn Any>>`, so every row of every value-per-call SRF — generate_series, unnest, regexp_matches, json_each, pg_prepared_xacts, … — paid a vtable load, an indirect `type_id()` call and a 128-bit TypeId compare to reach its own state, against C's single pointer read through `funcctx->user_fctx`. The fmgr layer already refuted exactly this shape one level up: FnExtra (types/fmgr/src/fcinfo.rs) carries FmgrInfo::fn_extra as a thin pointer whose pointee leads with (TypeId, dropper), so a hit is a dependent load plus a debug-only compare — its own doc measures the Box<dyn Any> form at ~35-45 insns against C's 4. user_fctx never got the same treatment; it does now, reusing FnExtra rather than minting a second carrier. Call sites read through the new `user_fctx_mut::<T>()` / `user_fctx_ref::<T>()` and write through `set_user_fctx`, which replaces a six-line chain carrying two hand-written `.expect` strings with one line whose panic names the expected type. Microbenchmark of the value-per-call path alone (fmgr dispatch + multi-call frame + user_fctx read + srf_return_next, no tuplestore, no executor), generate_series_int4 over 20M calls, min of 7, interleaved A/B: 4.15ns/row -> 3.06ns/row, -26%. End-to-end the win is small, and worth recording so the next reader does not re-derive it: `count(*) FROM generate_series(1, 4000000)` through the store path (series fold off, work_mem raised past the spill) moves 149.5ms -> 146.9ms, -1.7%. The SRF call is ~3ns of a ~37ns row; the rest is the tuplestore's form-tuple/write/read-back. So this is a real cost removed from every SRF, but it is NOT the general-case gap to C — that gap lives in the store path, still unattributed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HubH4aHTikSmpD6LV1JyFU
`for_each_row` walks the selection bitmap with `trailing_zeros` and folds through a loop-carried scalar accumulator with a per-row `isnull` branch. That is the right shape for a SPARSE selection — a qual that kept a scattered handful of a heap page — and pure overhead when every row is selected, which is the common case: an unqualified all-visible page, a kernel qual that passed everything, or a generated lane (series_fold). When the selection words are a dense PREFIX, run a counted loop over the value slice instead. Two things make it vectorize where the walk cannot: the trip count is known and the slices are pre-sliced, so no per-row bounds check survives; and null handling becomes a SELECT of the additive (or min/max) identity rather than a branch, so the body carries no control dependence. That is the shape DuckDB and ClickHouse sum a non-nullable column with — several SIMD accumulators combined at the end — and it is what the ~100x gap on issue malisper#83 was actually made of once the tuplestore was gone. Bit-exactness under reassociation is the whole safety argument, because the vectorizer WILL split the reduction into per-lane partials: i64/i128 wrapping add is the mod-2^N ring and integer min/max are associative and commutative (the same fact CseGroup's derivation already rests on), and every folded value is one C's checked per-row evaluation also produces (guard-passed batch, caller contract). Integer lanes only: `lane_value` dereferences the datum for the VarLen widths, and the branchless form reads every row including null ones — sound for a datum-word read, UB for a pointer one. VarLen and datum-lane widths keep the walk, which could not vectorize anyway. Arms: base_sum, sum_selected, CountAny, and integer Min/Max. `dense_kernels_alias_the_sparse_walk` pins each against its own former body across three widths, four transforms, six prefix lengths spanning word boundaries, nulls at both ends and interior, and lane values sitting ON the type bounds (so a min/max candidate can be the operator's own identity); `dense_prefix_recognises_exactly_the_prefixes` pins the split. Measurements (local, -Copt-level=3, no LTO, single-threaded; not fleet numbers). Fold kernel at heap-page grain, 291-row int4 lane, the record kept as the ignored `dense_arm_vs_walk`: 1.55ns/row -> 0.31ns/row, 4.9x. End to end, sum over generate_series(1, 100000000): 163ms -> 59ms, 2.76x — for reference DuckDB 1.5.5 and ClickHouse report 103ms and 99ms on the issue's box, both multi-threaded. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HubH4aHTikSmpD6LV1JyFU
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds a ChangesSeries folding and lane execution
Typed SRF context migration
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new dense aggregate path can abort affected queries when a null integer row is combined with a division-by-negative-one transform and an i64::MIN value. Merge should wait for null masking to occur before the transform and for regression coverage of this case. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant FunctionScan
participant SeriesFeed
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FunctionScan->>SeriesFeed: open eligible generate_series
SeriesFeed->>SeriesFold: emit value batches
SeriesFold->>LaneFold: fold selected batches
LaneFold-->>SeriesFold: update aggregate state
SeriesFold-->>FunctionScan: return aggregate result or refusal
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crates/backend/executor/execmain/src/lanev2/series_fold.rs (1)
109-121: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueConsider a release-mode assert on the column index.
col_valuesandcol_isnullignorecin release builds and return column 0 for any index. The whole safety argument for this synthetic lane is that admission pins every read to column 0. If a futureseries_plan_admitschange lets a second column through, the fold silently reads column 0 instead of failing.The check runs once per column per batch, not per row, so a hard
assert_eq!costs nothing measurable.♻️ Proposed change
#[inline(always)] fn col_values(&self, c: usize) -> &[Datum] { - debug_assert_eq!(c, 0, "series admission pins every lane read to column 0"); + assert_eq!(c, 0, "series admission pins every lane read to column 0"); &self.values[..self.n] } #[inline(always)] fn col_isnull(&self, c: usize) -> &[bool] { - debug_assert_eq!(c, 0, "series admission pins every lane read to column 0"); + assert_eq!(c, 0, "series admission pins every lane read to column 0"); &self.isnull[..self.n] }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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divk == -1to the parity matrix.The
divkset is[1, 3, -2]. None of these can overflow the division.divk == -1with ani64::MINlane value is the one divisor that makesv / divkpanic, and it is also the case the dense arm evaluates on null rows (see thedense_sumcomment incrates/backend/executor/lanefold/src/lib.rsat Lines 1865-1896). Add it so the dense arm and the sparse walk are pinned to the same behavior for that divisor.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@crates/backend/executor/lanefold/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 1865-1896: Update dense_sum’s reduce! macro to select the raw
value before applying $post, ensuring null rows never reach the division while
retaining the additive identity. In dense_minmax, mask int_lane_value(*d, width)
before xform or move xform inside the identity selection. In
crates/backend/executor/lanefold/src/tests.rs lines 5181-5187, add divk == -1
with an i64::MIN value at a null position to the parity matrix; both lib.rs
sites require changes.
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In `@crates/backend/executor/execmain/src/lanev2/series_fold.rs`:
- Around line 109-121: Update SeriesCols::col_values and SeriesCols::col_isnull
to use a release-mode equality assertion for c, ensuring any nonzero column
index fails instead of silently reading column 0; retain the existing sliced
return values.
In `@crates/backend/executor/lanefold/src/tests.rs`:
- Around line 5181-5187: Add -1 to the divk values exercised by the parity
assertions in the test loop, preserving the existing base_sum-versus-ref_sum
comparison and message so the dense and sparse paths are covered for this
divisor.
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| fn dense_sum(values: &[Datum], isnull: &[bool], width: LaneWidth, divk: i64) -> (i64, i64) { | ||
| macro_rules! reduce { | ||
| ($conv:expr, $post:expr) => {{ | ||
| let (mut c, mut s) = (0i64, 0i64); | ||
| for (d, &nul) in values.iter().zip(isnull.iter()) { | ||
| let v: i64 = $post($conv(*d)); | ||
| c += !nul as i64; | ||
| // SELECT, not branch: a null row contributes the additive | ||
| // identity, so the body has no control dependence. | ||
| s = s.wrapping_add(if nul { 0 } else { v }); | ||
| } | ||
| (c, s) | ||
| }}; | ||
| } | ||
| // divk is hoisted into the instantiation so the common (divk == 1) lane | ||
| // is a bare add — a per-row divide would block vectorization outright. | ||
| macro_rules! per_width { | ||
| ($post:expr) => { | ||
| match width { | ||
| LaneWidth::I16 => reduce!(|d: Datum| d.as_i16() as i64, $post), | ||
| LaneWidth::I32 => reduce!(|d: Datum| d.as_i32() as i64, $post), | ||
| LaneWidth::I64 => reduce!(|d: Datum| d.as_i64(), $post), | ||
| _ => unreachable!("dense sum admits integer widths only"), | ||
| } | ||
| }; | ||
| } | ||
| if divk == 1 { | ||
| per_width!(|v: i64| v) | ||
| } else { | ||
| per_width!(|v: i64| v / divk) | ||
| } | ||
| } |
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The dense kernels apply the affine transform before discarding null rows. Both dense reductions compute the transformed value for every row and only then select the operator identity for null rows. The transform contains a division, so a null row's unspecified datum word reaches / divk, and i64::MIN / -1 panics in Rust. The sparse walk divides only selected non-null values, so the dense arm can abort a fold the walk completes.
crates/backend/executor/lanefold/src/lib.rs#L1865-L1896: inreduce!, select the raw value first (if nul { 0 } else { raw }), then apply$post, so the divide never sees a null row's word.crates/backend/executor/lanefold/src/lib.rs#L1911-L1928: indense_minmax, maskint_lane_value(*d, width)before callingxform, or movexforminside the identity select.crates/backend/executor/lanefold/src/tests.rs#L5181-L5187: adddivk == -1to the parity matrix, with ani64::MINlane value at a null position, so the dense arm and the sparse walk are pinned for the overflowing divisor.
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In `@crates/backend/executor/lanefold/src/lib.rs` around lines 1865 - 1896, Update
dense_sum’s reduce! macro to select the raw value before applying $post,
ensuring null rows never reach the division while retaining the additive
identity. In dense_minmax, mask int_lane_value(*d, width) before xform or move
xform inside the identity selection. In
crates/backend/executor/lanefold/src/tests.rs lines 5181-5187, add divk == -1
with an i64::MIN value at a null position to the parity matrix; both lib.rs
sites require changes.
Fixes #83.
SELECT sum(i) FROM generate_series(1, 100000000) t(i)took 11.4s — slower than C Postgres (8.6s) and ~110x slower than DuckDB/ClickHouse. Three commits: the fix, and the two general costs the investigation turned up underneath it.1. Fold plain aggregates straight off
generate_seriesFunctionNextis C-exact, so the first pull drains the whole SRF into aTuplestore— 100M heap tuples, spilled to disk pastwork_mem— and every later pull reads one tuple back out. The store buys backward scans, rescans andWITH ORDINALITY; a one-pass plain aggregate uses none of them.nodefunctionscan::seriesrecognises agenerate_series(int4|int8)scan and generates its values in batches instead. The SRF's ownGenerateSeries*::newstill opens the feed, so argument evaluation, the strict-NULL contract and the step-zero 22023 are unchanged and land at the same point in the pull. Only the emission loop is new, and it is a counted form rather than the per-value state machine, so the batch loop carries no branch.matches_srf_state_machinepins the two against each other over the direction, inexact-span and next-value-overflow corners at six batch grains.lanev2::series_foldconsumes it: anAGG_PLAINnode folds each staged batch throughlanefold::fold_batch, the same kernel the heap plain-fold feed runs.Everything outside the admitted shape refuses and falls through to the unchanged store path —
WITH ORDINALITY,ROWS FROM, a qual or projection on the scan,EXPLAIN ANALYZE, backward-capable scans, FILTERed/guarded/residual transitions,GROUP BY, and any non-aggregate consumer. Every refusal point sits before the arguments are evaluated, so a volatile argument is never evaluated twice; a rescan replays the retained generator rather than re-running the SRF, which is what C's chgParam-NULL rescan does with the store.Knob
PGRUST_LANE_V2_SERIESFOLD, default ON;=0/offbyte-restores the store path.2. Carry SRF
user_fctxthe wayfn_extrais already carriedFuncCallContext::user_fctxwasOption<Box<dyn Any>>, so every row of every value-per-call SRF —generate_series,unnest,regexp_matches,json_each,pg_prepared_xacts, … — paid a vtable load, an indirecttype_id()call and a 128-bit TypeId compare to reach its own state, against C's single pointer read.The fmgr layer had already refuted exactly this shape one level up:
FnExtracarriesFmgrInfo::fn_extraas a thin pointer whose pointee leads with(TypeId, dropper).user_fctxnow reuses it rather than minting a second carrier, and call sites read throughuser_fctx_mut::<T>()/user_fctx_ref::<T>()— one line replacing a six-line chain with two hand-written.expectstrings.This is a real per-row cost removed from every SRF, but it is not the general-case gap to C. The SRF call is ~3ns of a ~37ns row; the rest is the tuplestore's form-tuple/write/read-back. That gap is still unattributed and is recorded as such in the commit.
3. Reduce dense batches with a counted loop, not a bit-scan
for_each_rowwalks the selection bitmap withtrailing_zerosand folds through a loop-carried scalar accumulator with a per-rowisnullbranch. Right for a sparse selection; pure overhead when every row is selected — an unqualified all-visible page, a kernel qual that passed everything, or a generated lane.When the selection words are a dense prefix, the kernels now run a counted loop over pre-sliced lanes, with null handling as a select of the identity rather than a branch. No surviving bounds check, no control dependence in the body, so the vectorizer emits the SIMD reduction — the shape DuckDB and ClickHouse sum a non-nullable column with.
Bit-exactness under reassociation is the safety argument, since the vectorizer splits the reduction into per-lane partials: i64/i128 wrapping add is the mod-2^N ring and integer min/max are associative and commutative (the same fact
CseGroup's derivation already rests on). Integer lanes only —lane_valuedereferences the datum for the VarLen widths, and the branchless form reads every row including null ones.Arms:
base_sum,sum_selected,CountAny, integerMin/Max.dense_kernels_alias_the_sparse_walkpins each against its own former body across three widths, four transforms, six prefix lengths spanning word boundaries, nulls at both ends and interior, and lane values sitting on the type bounds so a min/max candidate can be the operator's own identity.Not series-specific: every lane fold over an unqualified all-visible batch takes it.
Numbers
Local: this laptop (Apple silicon),
-Copt-level=3, no LTO, single-threaded, in-process wire path. Not fleet numbers — official numbers come from release/dist on Graviton, and the cross-engine rows below were measured on the issue reporter's box, so treat the comparison as indicative rather than a claim.SELECT sum(i) FROM generate_series(1, 100000000) t(i):Component measurements, each an interleaved A/B of two saved binaries, min of 7:
count(*)over 4M through the store pathsum(i)over 100M end to endThe fold-kernel record is reproducible as the ignored
lanefoldtestdense_arm_vs_walk.Scope left open
The fix covers plain aggregates over
generate_series.SELECT * FROM generate_series(...), or one feeding a join or sort, still goes through the tuplestore — which is where the remaining gap to C lives. Multi-threading the series (it is trivially morselizable by index range) is untouched.Verification
6166 workspace unit tests pass. Two fail —
adt_float::math_domains_and_live_pg_valuesandsession::tls_source_census_and_session_surface_are_pinned— both fail identically on a clean checkout ofmain; the float one is a macOSerf()last-ULP difference against a Linux golden. I could not run the regression suite end to end: it needs a C PG 18initdb'd data directory and only PG 14/17 were available here, so the SQL-level evidence is the in-process wire-path tests (simple_query_count_sum_over_generate_seriesand friends) rather than a regress run.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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