On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 03:50:54PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2020-12-30 17:41, David Fetter wrote:
> > > The input may have more than 2 billion bits set to 1. The biggest possible
> > > result should be 8 billion for bytea (1 GB with all bits set to 1).
> > > So shouldn't this function return an int8?
> > It does now, and thanks for looking at this.
>
> The documentation still reflects the previous int4 return type (in two
> different spellings, too).
Thanks for looking this over!
Please find attached the next version with corrected documentation.
Best,
David.
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>From f0f8e0639a4d08db7d454d5181aa9d98d31264a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Fetter <da...@fetter.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 02:51:46 -0800
Subject: [PATCH v3] popcount
To: hackers
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Now it's accessible to SQL for the BIT VARYING and BYTEA types.
diff --git doc/src/sgml/func.sgml doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 02a37658ad..1d86d610dd 100644
--- doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -4069,6 +4069,23 @@ SELECT format('Testing %3$s, %2$s, %s', 'one', 'two', 'three');
</para></entry>
</row>
+ <row>
+ <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>popcount</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ <function>popcount</function> ( <parameter>bytes</parameter> <type>bytea</type> )
+ <returnvalue>bigint</returnvalue>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Counts the number of bits set in a binary string.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <literal>popcount('\xdeadbeef'::bytea)</literal>
+ <returnvalue>24</returnvalue>
+ </para></entry>
+ </row>
+
<row>
<entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
<indexterm>
@@ -4830,6 +4847,24 @@ SELECT format('Testing %3$s, %2$s, %s', 'one', 'two', 'three');
<returnvalue>101010001010101010</returnvalue>
</para></entry>
</row>
+
+ <row>
+ <entry role="func_table_entry"><para role="func_signature">
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>popcount</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ <function>popcount</function> ( <parameter>bits</parameter> <type>bit</type> )
+ <returnvalue>bigint</returnvalue>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Counts the bits set in a bit string.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <literal>popcount(B'101010101010101010')</literal>
+ <returnvalue>9</returnvalue>
+ </para></entry>
+ </row>
+
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
diff --git src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index d7b55f57ea..2d53e0d46d 100644
--- src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -1446,6 +1446,9 @@
{ oid => '752', descr => 'substitute portion of string',
proname => 'overlay', prorettype => 'bytea',
proargtypes => 'bytea bytea int4', prosrc => 'byteaoverlay_no_len' },
+{ oid => '8436', descr => 'count set bits',
+ proname => 'popcount', prorettype => 'int8', proargtypes => 'bytea',
+ prosrc => 'byteapopcount'},
{ oid => '725',
proname => 'dist_pl', prorettype => 'float8', proargtypes => 'point line',
@@ -3865,6 +3868,9 @@
{ oid => '3033', descr => 'set bit',
proname => 'set_bit', prorettype => 'bit', proargtypes => 'bit int4 int4',
prosrc => 'bitsetbit' },
+{ oid => '8435', descr => 'count set bits',
+ proname => 'popcount', prorettype => 'int8', proargtypes => 'bit',
+ prosrc => 'bitpopcount'},
# for macaddr type support
{ oid => '436', descr => 'I/O',
diff --git src/backend/utils/adt/varbit.c src/backend/utils/adt/varbit.c
index 2235866244..a6a44f3f4f 100644
--- src/backend/utils/adt/varbit.c
+++ src/backend/utils/adt/varbit.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
#include "libpq/pqformat.h"
#include "nodes/nodeFuncs.h"
#include "nodes/supportnodes.h"
+#include "port/pg_bitutils.h"
#include "utils/array.h"
#include "utils/builtins.h"
#include "utils/varbit.h"
@@ -1878,3 +1879,29 @@ bitgetbit(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
else
PG_RETURN_INT32(0);
}
+
+/*
+ * bitpopcount
+ *
+ * Returns the number of bits set in a bit array.
+ *
+ */
+Datum
+bitpopcount(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+ VarBit *arg1 = PG_GETARG_VARBIT_P(0);
+ bits8 *p;
+ int len;
+ int8 popcount;
+
+ /*
+ * ceil(VARBITLEN(ARG1)/BITS_PER_BYTE)
+ * done to minimize branches and instructions.
+ */
+ len = (VARBITLEN(arg1) + BITS_PER_BYTE + 1) / BITS_PER_BYTE;
+ p = VARBITS(arg1);
+
+ popcount = pg_popcount((const char *)p, len);
+
+ PG_RETURN_INT64(popcount);
+}
diff --git src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c
index 4838bfb4ff..da3ba769c4 100644
--- src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c
+++ src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c
@@ -3433,6 +3433,22 @@ bytea_overlay(bytea *t1, bytea *t2, int sp, int sl)
return result;
}
+/*
+ * popcount
+ */
+Datum
+byteapopcount(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+ bytea *t1 = PG_GETARG_BYTEA_PP(0);
+ int len;
+ int8 result;
+
+ len = VARSIZE_ANY_EXHDR(t1);
+ result = pg_popcount(VARDATA_ANY(t1), len);
+
+ PG_RETURN_INT64(result);
+}
+
/*
* byteapos -
* Return the position of the specified substring.
diff --git src/test/regress/expected/bit.out src/test/regress/expected/bit.out
index a7f95b846d..228f992ced 100644
--- src/test/regress/expected/bit.out
+++ src/test/regress/expected/bit.out
@@ -710,6 +710,19 @@ SELECT overlay(B'0101011100' placing '001' from 20);
0101011100001
(1 row)
+-- Popcount
+SELECT popcount(B'0101011100'::bit(10));
+ popcount
+----------
+ 5
+(1 row)
+
+SELECT popcount(B'1111111111'::bit(10));
+ popcount
+----------
+ 10
+(1 row)
+
-- This table is intentionally left around to exercise pg_dump/pg_upgrade
CREATE TABLE bit_defaults(
b1 bit(4) DEFAULT '1001',
diff --git src/test/regress/expected/strings.out src/test/regress/expected/strings.out
index 595bd2446e..dd962e5f48 100644
--- src/test/regress/expected/strings.out
+++ src/test/regress/expected/strings.out
@@ -2167,3 +2167,10 @@ SELECT encode(overlay(E'Th\\000omas'::bytea placing E'\\002\\003'::bytea from 5
Th\000o\x02\x03
(1 row)
+SET bytea_output TO hex;
+SELECT popcount(E'\\xdeadbeef'::bytea);
+ popcount
+----------
+ 24
+(1 row)
+
diff --git src/test/regress/sql/bit.sql src/test/regress/sql/bit.sql
index ea01742c4a..fa77bf45c4 100644
--- src/test/regress/sql/bit.sql
+++ src/test/regress/sql/bit.sql
@@ -215,6 +215,10 @@ SELECT overlay(B'0101011100' placing '101' from 6);
SELECT overlay(B'0101011100' placing '001' from 11);
SELECT overlay(B'0101011100' placing '001' from 20);
+-- Popcount
+SELECT popcount(B'0101011100'::bit(10));
+SELECT popcount(B'1111111111'::bit(10));
+
-- This table is intentionally left around to exercise pg_dump/pg_upgrade
CREATE TABLE bit_defaults(
b1 bit(4) DEFAULT '1001',
diff --git src/test/regress/sql/strings.sql src/test/regress/sql/strings.sql
index ca465d050f..48964e71cb 100644
--- src/test/regress/sql/strings.sql
+++ src/test/regress/sql/strings.sql
@@ -728,3 +728,6 @@ SELECT btrim(E'\\000trim\\000'::bytea, ''::bytea);
SELECT encode(overlay(E'Th\\000omas'::bytea placing E'Th\\001omas'::bytea from 2),'escape');
SELECT encode(overlay(E'Th\\000omas'::bytea placing E'\\002\\003'::bytea from 8),'escape');
SELECT encode(overlay(E'Th\\000omas'::bytea placing E'\\002\\003'::bytea from 5 for 3),'escape');
+
+SET bytea_output TO hex;
+SELECT popcount(E'\\xdeadbeef'::bytea);
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