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Re: Default setting for enable_hashagg_disk

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-06-26T04:02:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-docs 
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 01:53:57AM +0200, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> I'm not saying it's not beneficial to use different limits for different
> nodes. Some nodes are less sensitive to the size (e.g. sorting often
> gets faster with smaller work_mem). But I think we should instead have a
> per-session limit, and the planner should "distribute" the memory to
> different nodes. It's a hard problem, of course.

Yeah, I am actually confused why we haven't developed a global memory
allocation strategy and continue to use per-session work_mem.

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Commits

  1. Add hash_mem_multiplier GUC.

  2. HashAgg: use better cardinality estimate for recursive spilling.

  3. Remove hashagg_avoid_disk_plan GUC.

  4. Doc fixup for hashagg_avoid_disk_plan GUC.

  5. Rework HashAgg GUCs.

  6. Disk-based Hash Aggregation.

  7. Implement partition-wise grouping/aggregation.

  8. Defer creation of partially-grouped relation until it's needed.