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Re: [HACKERS] Partition-wise aggregation/grouping

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Jeevan Chalke <jeevan.chalke@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi <rajkumar.raghuwanshi@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-02-26T14:33:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 6:38 AM, Jeevan Chalke
<jeevan.chalke@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> One idea I thought about is to memcpy the struct once we have set all
> required fields for grouped_rel so that we don't have to do similar stuff
> for partially_grouped_rel.

I think that would be a poor idea.  We want to copy a few specific
fields, not everything, and copying those fields is cheap, because
they are just simple assignment statements.  I think memcpy()'ing the
whole structure would be using a sledgehammer to solve a problem for
which a scalpel is more suited.

> Paths in pathlist are added by add_path(). Though we have paths is pathlist
> is sorted with the cheapest total path, we generally use
> RelOptInfo->cheapest_total_path instead of using first entry, unlike partial
> paths. But here you use the first entry like partial paths case. Will it
> better to use cheapest total path from partially_grouped_rel? This will
> require calling set_cheapest on partially_grouped_rel before we call this
> function.

Hmm, I guess that seems like a reasonable approach, although I am not
sure it matters much either way.

> Attached top-up patch doing this along with few indentation fixes.

I don't see much point to the change in generate_gather_paths -- that
line is only 77 characters long.

Committed after incorporating your other fixes and updating the
optimizer README.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

Commits

  1. postgres_fdw: Push down partition-wise aggregation.

  2. Remove 'target' from GroupPathExtraData.

  3. Implement partition-wise grouping/aggregation.

  4. Don't pass the grouping target around unnecessarily.

  5. Determine grouping strategies in create_grouping_paths.

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

  7. Split create_grouping_paths into degenerate and non-degenerate cases.

  8. Pass additional arguments to a couple of grouping-related functions.

  9. Fix logic error in add_paths_to_partial_grouping_rel.

  10. Minor cleanup of code related to partially_grouped_rel.

  11. Add a new upper planner relation for partially-aggregated results.

  12. Charge cpu_tuple_cost * 0.5 for Append and MergeAppend nodes.

  13. Rename enable_partition_wise_join to enable_partitionwise_join

  14. Factor some code out of create_grouping_paths.

  15. Pad XLogReaderState's main_data buffer more aggressively.

  16. Prevent int128 from requiring more than MAXALIGN alignment.

  17. Fix DROP SUBSCRIPTION hang

  18. Inject $(ICU_LIBS) regardless of platform.

  19. Some preliminary refactoring towards partitionwise join.