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UNIQUE constraint does not set tkey property on the corresponding BAT #3374

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monetdb-team opened this issue Nov 30, 2020 · 0 comments
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Date: 2013-09-27 14:12:50 +0200
From: @swingbit
To: SQL devs <>
Version: 11.21.19 (Jul2015-SP4)
CC: @mlkersten, @njnes

Last updated: 2016-06-23 10:24:06 +0200

Comment 19200

Date: 2013-09-27 14:12:50 +0200
From: @swingbit

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A UNIQUE constraint on a column does not set tkey property on the corresponding BAT.

This has a performance impact on the algorithms which check that property for optimization purposes and find it unset.

For example:

create table x as select distinct name from sys.tables with data;
alter table x add unique (name);
select * from x where name='tables';

This calls a BATsubselect, which does check the tkey property. It finds it unset, so it cannot compute the correct result estimate (which would be 1 in this case).

Another thing: it builds a hash table on the fly to perform a hash-select. But isn't a hash table already built and stored persistently, with the unique constraint? Can't that one be used?

Same considerations for join and other operators.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 19262

Date: 2013-10-09 14:41:56 +0200
From: @njnes

unfortunately unique keys are not that unique, only if also the NOT NULL constraint holds we could set tkey.

Comment 19263

Date: 2013-10-09 14:46:33 +0200
From: @swingbit

Good point.

Then the key property should be set when a column is marked unique and not null.

Comment 19302

Date: 2013-10-23 15:00:38 +0200
From: @sjoerdmullender

I believe changesets 0dc0ef3e0c0f and f6d11cb5e2d3 fixed this issue.
Roberto, can you check?

Comment 19304

Date: 2013-10-24 18:18:43 +0200
From: @swingbit

Yes, the property is set as expected, thanks

Comment 19383

Date: 2013-12-03 13:59:37 +0100
From: @sjoerdmullender

Feb2013-SP6 has been released.

Comment 20862

Date: 2015-05-11 17:27:06 +0200
From: @swingbit

This issue was fixed in Feb2013 SP6, but it seems it's back in Oct2014.

A column marked NOT NULL and with a UNIQUE constraint does not have the tkey property set.

Comment 20875

Date: 2015-05-20 21:57:09 +0200
From: @njnes

with deletes (mark by the oid lists) we cannot set the bat tkey.

Comment 20876

Date: 2015-05-20 22:06:55 +0200
From: @njnes

somehow the combination of the extend (group by result for distinct) and
leftfetchjoin to retrieve the column data doesn't result in a set tkey in
the create table with data. In a single select distinct it is set. So

indeed some more fixing needed.

Comment 21597

Date: 2015-11-25 22:34:05 +0100
From: @mlkersten

Is this one fixed in the latest release?

Comment 21735

Date: 2016-01-18 11:42:47 +0100
From: @swingbit

Martin: not yet in Jul2015 SP2

Comment 22057

Date: 2016-04-17 10:07:32 +0200
From: MonetDB Mercurial Repository <>

Changeset 3fa0a17123c9 made by Niels Nes niels@cwi.nl in the MonetDB repo, refers to this bug.

For complete details, see http//devmonetdborg/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=3fa0a17123c9

Changeset description:

mark a extend.project(grpby) column as key (when we only have one grpby column).
This solves bug #3374 (and possibly other performance issues)

Comment 22058

Date: 2016-04-17 10:08:23 +0200
From: @njnes

We now generate a setKey when we know the result of the distinct (in this case) is unique (ie a single column result). Then the key info is propagated solving the rest of the problems.

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@sjoerdmullender sjoerdmullender added this to the Ancient Release milestone Feb 7, 2022
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