MySQL 8.0: What Is New in Optimizer and Executor?

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What Is New in Optmizer and Executor?
Norvald H. Ryeng
Sofware Development Senior Manager
MySQL Optmizer Team
October, 2018
MySQL 8.0:

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Program Agenda
Common table expressions
Window functons
UTF-8 support
GIS
SKIP LOCKED, NOWAIT
JSON functons
Index extensions
Cost model
Hints

Program Agenda
Window functons
UTF-8 support
GIS
SKIP LOCKED, NOWAIT
JSON functons
Index extensions
Cost model
Hints

CTEs As Alternatve to Derived Tables
● A derived table is a subquery in the FROM clause:
SELECT … FROM (subquery) AS derived, t1 …
● A CTE is just like a derived table, but the declaraton comes
before the query block:
WITH derived AS (subquery)
SELECT … FROM derived, t1 …
● May precede SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE and be used in
subqueries:
WITH derived AS (subquery)
DELETE FROM t1 WHERE t1.a IN (SELECT b FROM derived);

CTEs vs. Derived Tables
● Beter readability
● Can be referenced multple tmes
● Can refer to other CTEs
● Improved performance

CTEs Provide Beter Readability
Derived table:
SELECT …
FROM t1 LEFT JOIN ((SELECT … FROM …) AS dt JOIN t2 ON …) ON …
CTE:
WITH dt AS (SELECT ... FROM ...)
SELECT ...
FROM t1 LEFT JOIN (dt JOIN t2 ON ...) ON …

CTEs Can Be Referenced Multple Times
● Derived tables can't be referenced twice
SELECT …
FROM (SELECT a, b, SUM(c) AS s FROM t1 GROUP BY a, b) AS d1
JOIN (SELECT a, b, SUM(c) AS s FROM t1 GROUP BY a, b) AS d2 ON d1.b = d2.a;
● CTEs can
WITH d AS (SELECT a, b, SUM(c) AS s FROM t1 GROUP BY a, b)
SELECT … FROM d AS d1 JOIN d AS d2 ON d1.b = d2.a;
● Beter performance with materializaton
– Multple CTE references are only materialized once
– Derived tables and views will be materialized once per reference

CTEs Can Refer to Other CTEs
● Derived tables can't refer to other derived tables
SELECT …
FROM (SELECT … FROM …) AS d1, (SELECT … FROM d1 …) AS d2 …
ERROR: 1146 (42S02): Table ‘db.d1’ doesn’t exist
● CTEs can refer other CTEs
WITH d1 AS (SELECT … FROM …),
d2 AS (SELECT … FROM d1 …)
SELECT …
FROM d1, d2 …

Recursive CTEs
WITH RECURSIVE cte AS
(SELECT … FROM table_name /* "seed" SELECT */
UNION [DISTINCT|ALL]
SELECT … FROM cte, table_name) /* "recursive" SELECT */
SELECT … FROM cte;
● A recursive CTE refers to itself in a subquery
● The "seed" SELECT is executed once to create the inital data subset
● The "recursive" CTE is executed repeatedly
– Stops when iteraton doesn't generate any new rows
– Set cte_max_recursion_depth to limit recursion
● Useful to traverse hierarchies (parent/child, part/subpart)

Program Agenda
Window functons
UTF-8 support
GIS
SKIP LOCKED, NOWAIT
JSON functons
Index extensions
Cost model
Hints

Window Functons
● Similar to aggregaton functons
– Computes one value based on multple rows
– But does not group
Aggregaton functon Window functon

Window Functon Example
Sum up total salary per department
SELECT name, dept_id, salary,
SUM(salary) OVER (PARTITION BY
dept_id) AS dept_total
FROM employee
ORDER BY dept_id, name;
The OVER
keyword signals a
window functon
PARTITION ⇒
disjoint set of
rows in result set
name dept_id salary dept_total
Newt NULL 75000 75000
Dag 10 NULL 370000
Ed 10 100000 370000
Fred 10 60000 370000
Jon 10 60000 370000
Michael 10 70000 370000
Newt 10 80000 370000
Lebedev 20 65000 130000
Pete 20 65000 130000
Jef 30 300000 370000
Will 30 70000 370000

Program Agenda
Window functons
UTF-8 support
GIS
SKIP LOCKED, NOWAIT
JSON functons
Index extensions
Cost model
Hints

UTF-8 Support
● Collatons based on Unicode 9.0
● ut8mb4 as default character set
– ut8mb4_0900_ai_ci as default collaton
● Accent and case sensitve collatons
– Including 20+ language specifc collatons
– Now also Japanese and Russian
● Signifcantly improved performance
● Unicode support in regular expressions

New Default Character Set
● No change to existng tables
● Only has efect on new tables/schemas when character set is not
explicitly specifed
Upgrade recommendatons
● Upgrade frst, change character set and collaton aferwards
● Don't mix collatons
– Error: "Illegal mix of collatons"
– Slower queries because indexes can't be used

Program Agenda
Window functons
UTF-8 support
GIS
SKIP LOCKED, NOWAIT
JSON functons
Index extensions
Cost model
Hints

GIS
● Geography support
– Lattude-longitude on an ellipsoid
● Spatal reference systems (SRSs)
– More than 5000 SRSs from the EPSG Geodetc Parameter Dataset
– INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ST_SPATIAL_REFERENCE_SYSTEMS
– CREATE/DROP SPATIAL REFERENCE SYSTEM
● SRID aware spatal datatypes, indexes and functons
● ST_Transform to convert between SRSs — New in MySQL 8.0.13!
● Functons and expressions as default values — New in MySQL 8.0.13!
– Including ST_GeomFromText

Program Agenda
Window functons
UTF-8 support
GIS
SKIP LOCKED, NOWAIT
JSON functons
Index extensions
Cost model
Hints

SELECT … FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED
Problem: Hot row contenton, multple worker threads accessing the same rows.
SKIP LOCKED Soluton:
● Only read rows that aren't locked
● InnoDB skips a locked row, and the next one goes to the result set
Example:
– Booking system: Skip orders that are pending
START TRANSACTION;
SELECT * FROM seats WHERE seat_no BETWEEN 2 AND 3 AND booked = 'NO'
FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED;

SELECT … FOR UPDATE NOWAIT
Problem: Hot row contenton, multple worker threads accessing the same rows.
NOWAIT Soluton:
● Fail immediately if any rows are locked
● Without NOWAIT, the query waits for innodb_lock_wait_tmeout (default 50 seconds)
before giving up
Example:
– Booking system: Fail if rows are locked
START TRANSACTION;
SELECT * FROM seats WHERE seat_no BETWEEN 2 AND 3 AND booked = 'NO'
FOR UPDATE NOWAIT;
ERROR 3572 (HY000): Statement aborted because lock(s) could not be acquired ...

Program Agenda
Window functons
UTF-8 support
GIS
SKIP LOCKED, NOWAIT
JSON functons
Index extensions
Cost model
Hints

JSON Functons
JSON_ARRAY_APPEND()
JSON_ARRAY_INSERT()
JSON_ARRAY()
JSON_CONTAINS_PATH()
JSON_CONTAINS()
JSON_DEPTH()
JSON_EXTRACT()
JSON_INSERT()
JSON_KEYS()
JSON_LENGTH()
JSON_MERGE[_PRESERVE]()
JSON_OBJECT()
JSON_QUOTE()
JSON_REMOVE()
JSON_REPLACE()
JSON_SEARCH()
JSON_SET()
JSON_TYPE()
JSON_UNQUOTE()
JSON_VALID()
JSON_PRETTY()
JSON_STORAGE_SIZE()
JSON_STORAGE_FREE()
JSON_ARRAYAGG()
JSON_OBJECTAGG()
JSON_MERGE_PATCH()
JSON_TABLE()

JSON Data Type
CREATE TABLE t1 (json_col JSON);
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (
'{ "people": [
{ "name":"John Smith", "address":"780 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103"},
{ "name":"Sally Brown", "address":"75 37th Ave S, St Cloud, MN 94103"},
{ "name":"John Johnson", "address":"1262 Roosevelt Trail, Raymond, ME 04071"}
] }'
);

JSON_TABLE
Convert JSON documents to relatonal tables
SELECT people.*
FROM t1,
JSON_TABLE(json_col, '$.people[*]' COLUMNS (
name VARCHAR(40) PATH '$.name',
address VARCHAR(100) PATH '$.address')) AS people;
name address
John Smith 780 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Sally Brown 75 37th Ave S, St Cloud, MN 9410
John Johnson 1262 Roosevelt Trail, Raymond, ME 04071

JSON_TABLE
Filter JSON data on SQL expression
SELECT people.*
FROM t1,
JSON_TABLE(json_col, '$.people[*]' COLUMNS (
name VARCHAR(40) PATH '$.name',
address VARCHAR(100) PATH '$.address')) AS people
WHERE people.name LIKE 'John%';
name address
John Smith 780 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103
John Johnson 1262 Roosevelt Trail, Raymond, ME 04071

JSON_TABLE Nested Arrays
[
{ "father":"John", "mother":"Mary",
"marriage_date":"2003-12-05",
"children": [ { "name":"Eric", "age":12 },
{ "name":"Beth", "age":10 } ]
},
{ "father":"Paul", "mother":"Laura",
"children": [ { "name":"Sarah", "age":9},
{ "name":"Noah", "age":3} ,
{ "name":"Peter", "age":1} ]
}
]
id father married child_id child age
1 John 1 1 Eric 12
1 John 1 2 Beth 10
2 Paul 0 1 Sarah 9
2 Paul 0 2 Noah 3
2 Paul 0 3 Peter 1

JSON_TABLE Nested Arrays
JSON_TABLE (families, '$[*]' COLUMNS (
id FOR ORDINALITY,
father VARCHAR(30) PATH '$.father',
married INTEGER EXISTS PATH
'$.marriage_date',
NESTED PATH '$.children[*]' COLUMNS (
child_id FOR ORDINALITY,
child VARCHAR(30) PATH '$.name',
age INTEGER PATH '$.age'
)
))
id father married child_id child age
1 John 1 1 Eric 12
1 John 1 2 Beth 10
2 Paul 0 1 Sarah 9
2 Paul 0 2 Noah 3
2 Paul 0 3 Peter 1

JSON Array Aggregaton
CREATE TABLE t1 (id INT, grp INT,
jsoncol JSON);
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (1, 1,
'{"key1":"value1","key2":"value2"}');
'{"keyA":"valueA","keyB":"valueB"}');
'{"keyX":"valueX","keyY":"valueY"}');
Yet to come: JSON_ARRAYAGG as window functon
SELECT JSON_ARRAYAGG(jsoncol)
FROM t1;
[{"key1":"value1","key2":"value2"},
{"keyA":"valueA","keyB":"valueB"},
{"keyX":"valueX","keyY":"valueY"}]

JSON Object Aggregaton
CREATE TABLE t1 (id INT, grp INT,
jsoncol JSON);
'{"key1":"value1","key2":"value2"}');
'{"keyA":"valueA","keyB":"valueB"}');
'{"keyX":"valueX","keyY":"valueY"}');
Yet to come: JSON_OBJECTAGG as window functon
SELECT grp, JSON_OBJECTAGG(id, jsoncol)
FROM t1
GROUP BY grp;
1
{"1":{"key1":"value1","key2":"value2"},
"2":{"keyA":"valueA","keyB":"valueB"}}
2 {"3":{"keyX":"valueX","keyY":"valueY"}}

Partal Update of JSON
● Automatcally detect potental in-place updates
– JSON_SET
– JSON_REPLACE
– JSON_REMOVE
– Source and target columns are the same
– Updatng existng value, not adding new one
– Sufcient space is available
● Smaller than or same size as some old value
● Only the dif is sent in binlog

Program Agenda
Window functons
UTF-8 support
GIS
SKIP LOCKED, NOWAIT
JSON functons
Index extensions
Cost model
Hints

Invisible Index
● Index is maintained by the storage engine, but invisible to the
optmizer
– Override with SET optmizer_switch='use_invisible_indexes=on';
● Primary key can't be invisible
● Use case: Check for performance drope before removing index
ALTER TABLE t1 ALTER INDEX idx INVISIBLE;
SHOW INDEXES FROM t1;
+---------+------------------+----------------------+---------------+
| Table | Key_name | Column_name | Visible |
+---------+------------------+----------------------+---------------+
| t1 | idx | a | NO |
+---------+------------------+----------------------+---------------+

Descending Index
CREATE TABLE t1 (
a INT,
b INT,
INDEX a_b (a DESC, b ASC)
);
● In 5.7: Index in ascending order is created, server scans it backwards
● In 8.0: Index in descending order is created, server scans it forwards
– Works on B-tree indexes only
– Benefts:
● Use indexes instead of flesort for ORDER BY clause with ASC/DESC sort key
● Forward index scan is slightly faster than backward index scan

Functonal Index — New in 8.0.13
● Index over an expression
CREATE TABLE t1 (col1 INT, col2 INT, INDEX func_index ((ABS(col1))));
CREATE INDEX idx1 ON t1 ((col1 + col2));
CREATE INDEX idx2 ON t1 ((col1 + col2), (col1 - col2), col1);
ALTER TABLE t1 ADD INDEX ((col1 * 40));
● No longer necessary to create an indexed generated column
● Not allowed as PRIMARY KEY

Index Skip-Scan — New in 8.0.13
● Used for mult-column index
● Conditon not on frst part of index
● Cost-based choice
Before MySQL 8.0.13:
Full index scan
MySQL 8.0.13:
Skip-scan
pk a b c
INDEX idx(a,b,c)
SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE b < 3;
1
1 2 3 4 5
2
1 2 3 4 5
3
1 2 3 4 5
4
1 2 3 4 5
a
b
c
Full index scan
1
1 2 3 4 5
2
1 2 3 4 5
3
1 2 3 4 5
4
1 2 3 4 5
a
b
c
b < 3 b < 3 b < 3 b < 3

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Program Agenda
Window functons
UTF-8 support
GIS
SKIP LOCKED, NOWAIT
JSON functons
Index extensions
Cost model
Hints

Motvaton for Improving the MySQL Cost Model
● Produce more correct cost estmates
– Beter decisions by the optmizer should improve performance
● Adapt to new hardware architectures
– SSD, larger memories, caches
● More maintainable cost model implementaton
– Avoid hard coded “cost constants”
– Refactoring of existng cost model code
● Confgurable and tunable
● Make more of the optmizer cost-based
Faster
queries

New Storage Technologies
● Time to do a table scan of 10 million
records:
● Adjust cost model to support
diferent storage technologies
● Provide confgurable cost constants
for diferent storage technologies
Memory 5 s
SSD 20 - 146 s
Hard disk 32 - 1465 s
Provide a program that
could measure performance
and suggest good cost
constant confguraton for a
running MySQL server?
Provide a program that
could measure performance
and suggest good cost
constant confguraton for a
running MySQL server?

Memory Bufer Aware Cost Estmates
● Storage engines:
– Estmate for how much of data and
indexes are in a memory bufer
– Estmate for hit rate for memory
bufer
● Optmizer cost model:
– Take into account whether data is
already in memory or need to be read
from disk
Server
Storage
engine
Disk data
Query
executor
Database
bufer

Histograms
● Provides the optmizer with informaton about column value
distributon
● To create/recalculate histogram for a column:
ANALYZE TABLE table UPDATE HISTOGRAM ON column WITH n BUCKETS;
● May use sampling
– Sample size is based on available memory
(histogram_generaton_max_mem_size)
● Automatcally chooses between two histogram types:
– Singleton: One value per bucket
– Equi-height: Multple values per bucket

Program Agenda
Window functons
UTF-8 support
GIS
SKIP LOCKED, NOWAIT
JSON functons
Index extensions
Cost model
Hints

Join Order Hints
● No need to reorganize the FROM clause to add join order
hints like you will for STRAIGHT_JOIN
● /*+ JOIN_ORDER(t1, t2, …) */
● /*+ JOIN_PREFIX(t1, t2, …) */
● /*+ JOIN_SUFFIX(…, ty, tz) */
● /*+ JOIN_FIXED_ORDER() */
– Replacement for STRAIGHT_JOIN

View/Derived Table/CTE Merge Hints
● Views, derived tables and CTEs are, if possible, merged into outer
query
● NO_MERGE can override default behavior
SELECT /*+ NO_MERGE(dt) */ *
FROM t1 JOIN (SELECT x, y FROM t2) dt ON t1.x = dt.x;
● MERGE will force a merge
SELECT /*+ MERGE(dt) */ *
FROM t1 JOIN (SELECT x, y FROM t2) dt ON t1.x = dt.x;

Index Merge Executon
10INDEX(a)
10INDEX(b)
a=10 AND b=10Result:
Intersecton
SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE a=10 AND b=10

Index Merge Hints
● Index merge: Merge rows from multple range scans on a
single table
● Algorithms: union, intersecton, sort union
● Users can specify which indexes to use for index merge
– /*+ INDEX_MERGE(t1 idx1, idx2, …) */
– /*+ NO_INDEX_MERGE(t1 idx1, idx2, …) */

Hints to Set Session Variables
● Set a session variable for the duraton of a single statement
● Examples:
SELECT /*+ SET_VAR(sort_bufer_size = 16M) */ name FROM people ORDER BY name;
INSERT /*+ SET_VAR(foreign_key_checks = OFF) */ INTO t2 VALUES (1, 1), (2, 2), (3, 3);
SELECT /*+ SET_VAR(optmizer_switch = 'conditon_fanout_flter = of') */ *
FROM customer JOIN orders ON c_custkey = o_custkey
WHERE c_acctbal < 0 AND o_orderdate < '1993-01-01';
● Note: Not all session variables are setable through hints:
mysql> SELECT /*+ SET_VAR(max_allowed_packet=128M) */ * FROM t1;
Empty set, 1 warning (0,00 sec)
Warning (Code 4537): Variable 'max_allowed_packet' cannot be set using SET_VAR hint.

Feature descriptons and design details
directly from the source.
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