Re: [HACKERS] Surjective functional indexes

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-01-06T22:59:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Greetings,

* Konstantin Knizhnik (k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru) wrote:
> On 15.12.2017 01:21, Michael Paquier wrote:
> >On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 6:15 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> >>Konstantin Knizhnik wrote:
> >>>If you still thing that additional 16 bytes per relation in statistic is too
> >>>high overhead, then I will also remove autotune.
> >>I think it's pretty clear that these additional bytes are excessive.
> >The bar to add new fields in PgStat_TableCounts in very high, and one
> >attempt to tackle its scaling problems with many relations is here by
> >Horiguchi-san:
> >https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20171211.201523.24172046.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
> >His patch may be worth a look if you need more fields for your
> >feature. So it seems to me that the patch as currently presented has
> >close to zero chance to be committed as long as you keep your changes
> >to pgstat.c.
> 
> Ok, looks like everybody think that autotune based on statistic is bad idea.
> Attached please find patch without autotune.

This patch appears to apply with a reasonable amount of fuzz, builds,
and passes 'make check', at least, therefore I'm going to mark it
'Needs Review'.

I will note that the documentation doesn't currently build due to this:

/home/sfrost/git/pg/dev/cleanup/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_index.sgml:302: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: literal line 302 and unparseable
    <term><literal>recheck_on_update</></term>

but I don't think it makes sense for that to stand in the way of someone
doing a review of the base patch.  Still, please do fix the
documentation build when you get a chance.

Thanks!

Stephen

Commits

  1. Finish reverting "recheck_on_update" patch.