Re: Memory-Bounded Hash Aggregation

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Taylor Vesely <tvesely@pivotal.io>, Adam Lee <ali@pivotal.io>, Melanie Plageman <mplageman@pivotal.io>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-02-22T17:55:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 12:22 -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> I'd also like to apply something like 0013 from that thread, I find
> the
> whole curperagg, select_current_set, curaggcontext logic confusing as
> hell. I'd so far planned to put this on the backburner until this
> patch
> has been committed, to avoid breaking it. But perhaps that's not the
> right call?

At least for now, I appreciate you holding off on those a bit.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis





Commits

  1. Fix costing for disk-based hash aggregation.

  2. Fixes for Disk-based Hash Aggregation.

  3. Disk-based Hash Aggregation.

  4. Extend ExecBuildAggTrans() to support a NULL pointer check.

  5. Save calculated transitionSpace in Agg node.

  6. Minor refactor of nodeAgg.c.

  7. Logical Tape Set: lazily allocate read buffer.

  8. Introduce TupleHashTableHash() and LookupTupleHashEntryHash().

  9. Logical Tape Set: use min heap for freelist.

  10. Fix comments in execGrouping.c

  11. Avoid integer overflow while sifting-up a heap in tuplesort.c.

  12. Make the overflow guards in ExecChooseHashTableSize be more protective.

  13. Improve performance of our private version of qsort. Per recent testing,