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What problem does this PR solve?

Issue Number: ref #67449

Problem Summary: After #71806, TiDB can estimate NDV from the FM sketches of sampled rows, but it cannot save such a sketch or merge it into global statistics. This is the second part of sampling-based NDV (#71510), split from #71520.

What changed and how does it work?

  • Save a sampled FM sketch with its row counts in a format that older TiDB rejects, and keep it in stats JSON.
  • The global merge scales the hashes seen once by the sampling ratio of their partition, so partitions can have different rates or read every row.

TiDB does not request sampling yet, so there is no behavior change.

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Side effects

  • Performance regression: Consumes more CPU
  • Performance regression: Consumes more Memory
  • Breaking backward compatibility (older TiDB rejects saved sampled sketches)

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  • Affects user behaviors
  • Contains syntax changes
  • Contains variable changes
  • Contains experimental features
  • Changes MySQL compatibility

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  • New Features
    • Added support for saving, loading, and merging sampled statistics across partitions, while retaining compatibility with existing unsampled statistics.
    • Improved distinct-value estimates across partitions using sample information and available non-NULL row counts.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved estimates for repeated values, sampled singletons, and partitions without histogram or TopN data.
    • Invalid or unsupported sampled statistics now return errors instead of risking a crash.

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📝 Walkthrough

The change adds versioned sampled FM sketch encoding and partition-aware NDV merging. Global statistics use merged sketch estimates with histogram, TopN, and row-count limits. Statistics JSON supports sampled sketch data while retaining the legacy representation.

Changes: Sampled FM Sketch NDV

Layer / File(s) Summary
Sampled sketch model and estimation
pkg/statistics/sampled_ndv.go, pkg/statistics/partition_ndv.go, pkg/statistics/fmsketch.go, pkg/statistics/fmsketch_test.go, pkg/statistics/BUILD.bazel
FM sketches support sampled metadata and versioned encoding. PartitionNDVMerger combines partition estimates while accounting for repeated hashes, singleton scaling, and mask changes.
Global statistics integration
pkg/statistics/handle/globalstats/global_stats.go, pkg/statistics/handle/globalstats/global_stats_async.go, pkg/statistics/handle/globalstats/global_stats_test.go, pkg/statistics/handle/globalstats/BUILD.bazel
Synchronous and asynchronous merges use PartitionNDVMerger. Sampled NDV is bounded using histogram and TopN data, missed non-NULL rows, and the global row count.
Sampled sketch JSON storage
pkg/statistics/util/json_objects.go, pkg/statistics/handle/storage/json.go, pkg/statistics/handle/storage/dump_test.go, pkg/statistics/handle/storage/BUILD.bazel
JSON export and import support sampled sketch bytes alongside legacy FM sketch objects. Storage tests cover sampled formats and decode errors.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PartitionSketches
  participant dealFMSketch
  participant PartitionNDVMerger
  participant GlobalStats
  participant sampledGlobalNDV
  PartitionSketches->>dealFMSketch: Provide partition FM sketches
  dealFMSketch->>PartitionNDVMerger: Merge sketches
  PartitionNDVMerger-->>dealFMSketch: Return NDV and sampled status
  dealFMSketch->>GlobalStats: Provide merged NDV and sampled status
  GlobalStats->>sampledGlobalNDV: Provide histogram, TopN, missed rows, and global row count
  sampledGlobalNDV-->>GlobalStats: Return bounded NDV
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 42359

Importing an empty sampled-sketch string can silently produce an empty sketch. This bounded compatibility issue warrants an owner fix or explicit acceptance before merge.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 42359

The format deliberately rejects older readers rather than silently producing incorrect estimates, and malformed-envelope errors are contained by the inspected import and merge paths. No new security attack path was established. Compatibility after saving sampled statistics, validation of imported counts, and import permissions remain areas of uncertainty.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated sensitive outcome is modification or failure to load statistics for selected tables, columns, indexes and partitions, with downstream global-estimation effects. Persisted reads use physical-table and histogram identifiers. Maximum unauthorized scope and propagation across deployed database services remain unresolved; process-wide failure or cross-tenant access was not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — An empty fm_sketch JSON string enters the binary branch but bypasses sampled-envelope recognition and becomes an empty legacy sketch. This is permissive format classification, not an established new security attack path: the pre-PR legacy object representation already allowed an empty sketch.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — LOAD STATS receives client-transferred bytes, unmarshals them and invokes the statistics loader. The inspected transport requires ClientLocalFiles support, but that capability check is not proof of table-level authorization. Import privileges were not fully established, and the inspected executor and server paths are unchanged from the PR base.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — JSON loading decodes a physical table before saving its statistics, but saves columns and indexes individually and loads partitions concurrently. Therefore, a failed partition load need not undo previously completed writes. This orchestration predates the PR. Static tests assert successful reload after an unsupported sampled version is removed, not whole-table atomicity.
  • observed — Incremental clearing of exported column sketches already existed at the PR base. The new sampled encoder adds an error exit, but the inspected evidence does not establish a newly introduced shared-cache cleanup or rollback defect.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Consider validating producer-compatible row, sample and NULL-count relationships at sampled-envelope import, including inconsistent zero-sample payloads, and explicitly deciding whether the binary JSON branch must contain a sampled marker. This would strengthen format and arithmetic invariants; it is not a verified security finding.
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Through sampled rows and masks laid bare.
Sketches cross partitions, then combine,
Their counts meet TopN down the line.
JSON keeps old shapes in view,
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🟡 Changes recommended

Sampled sketch decoding can panic on malformed data, and heterogeneous merging can discard GEE sample-count caps.

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What changed in this PR

Adds persistence and partition-aware merging for sampled FM sketches, enabling future sampled-NDV analysis.

Changes:

  • Serializes sampled sketches with row/sample/NULL counts.
  • Merges partition sketches using partition-specific sampling scales.
  • Adds synchronous/async merge and JSON round-trip tests.

Static review found malformed-input panic and estimation-cap issues; tests were not run locally.

File Description
pkg/​statistics/​util/​json_objects.go Adds sampled-sketch JSON encoding.
pkg/​statistics/​sampled_ndv.go Adds sampled metadata serialization.
pkg/​statistics/​partition_ndv.go Implements partition NDV merging.
pkg/​statistics/​handle/​storage/​json.go Preserves sampled sketches in dumps.
pkg/​statistics/​handle/​storage/​dump_test.go Tests dump/load compatibility.
pkg/​statistics/​handle/​storage/​BUILD.bazel Adds test dependency.
pkg/​statistics/​handle/​globalstats/​global_stats.go Updates blocking global merge.
pkg/​statistics/​handle/​globalstats/​global_stats_test.go Tests sampled global NDV.
pkg/​statistics/​handle/​globalstats/​global_stats_async.go Updates asynchronous merge.
pkg/​statistics/​handle/​globalstats/​BUILD.bazel Updates test target.
pkg/​statistics/​fmsketch.go Supports sampled sketch encoding.
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pkg/​statistics/​BUILD.bazel Registers the new merger source.

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🟡 Minor · Reject empty sampled sketches before protobuf fallback. · json.go:366-372

pkg/statistics/handle/storage/json.go:366-372
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject empty sampled sketches before protobuf fallback.

fm_sketch: "" produces a non-nil, zero-length SampledFMSketch. DecodeFMSketch then accepts it as an empty legacy protobuf sketch, which silently loses the sampled sketch. Return an error for this malformed sampled payload.

Suggested fix
 if column.SampledFMSketch != nil {
+	if len(column.SampledFMSketch) == 0 {
+		return nil, errors.New("invalid sampled NDV sketch payload")
+	}
 	return statistics.DecodeFMSketch(column.SampledFMSketch)
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🟡 Changes recommended

Malformed count data can corrupt NDV results, and the async path introduces unbounded per-item retention for ordinary merges.

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🟢 Approval recommended

The persistence format and both global merge paths are consistently implemented with focused regression coverage.

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🔢 Self-check (PR reviewed by myself and ready for feedback)

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LGTM, I have added some non-blocking comments.

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