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Re: [PATCH] Incremental sort (was: PoC: Partial sort)

James Coleman <jtc331@gmail.com>

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From: James Coleman <jtc331@gmail.com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Rafia Sabih <rafia.pghackers@gmail.com>, Shaun Thomas <shaun.thomas@2ndquadrant.com>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-07-04T13:29:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 7:22 PM Tomas Vondra
<tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 04:53:40PM -0400, James Coleman wrote:
> >
> >Unrelated: if you or someone else you know that's more familiar with
> >the parallel code, I'd be interested in their looking at the patch at
> >some point, because I have a suspicion it might not be operating in
...
> So I've looked into that, and the reason seems fairly simple - when
> generating the Gather Merge paths, we only look at paths that are in
> partial_pathlist. See generate_gather_paths().
>
> And we only have sequential + index paths in partial_pathlist, not
> incremental sort paths.
>
> IMHO we can do two things:
>
> 1) modify generate_gather_paths to also consider incremental sort for
> each sorted path, similarly to what create_ordered_paths does
>
> 2) modify build_index_paths to also generate an incremental sort path
> for each index path
>
> IMHO (1) is the right choice here, because it automatically does the
> trick for all other types of ordered paths, not just index scans. So,
> something like the attached patch, which gives me plans like this:
...
> But I'm not going to claim those are total fixes, it's the minimum I
> needed to do to make this particular type of plan work.

Thanks for looking into this!

I intended to apply this to my most recent version of the patch (just
sent a few minutes ago), but when I apply it I noticed that the
partition_aggregate regression tests have several of these failures:

ERROR:  could not find pathkey item to sort

I haven't had time to look into the cause yet, so I decided to wait
until the next patch revision.

James Coleman

Commits

  1. Further adjustments to Hashagg EXPLAIN ANALYZE output

  2. Rework EXPLAIN format for incremental sort

  3. Fix typos and improve incremental sort comments

  4. Stabilize incremental_sort tests

  5. Minor improvements in Incremental Sort explain

  6. Consider Incremental Sort paths at additional places

  7. Fix representation of SORT_TYPE_STILL_IN_PROGRESS.

  8. Fix failures in incremental_sort due to number of workers

  9. Fix show_incremental_sort_info with force_parallel_mode

  10. Implement Incremental Sort

  11. Fix handling of "Subplans Removed" field in EXPLAIN output.

  12. Fix EXPLAIN (SETTINGS) to follow policy about when to print empty fields.

  13. Ensure plpgsql result tuples have the right composite type marking.

  14. Propagate sort instrumentation from workers back to leader.

  15. Make new regression test case parallel-safe, and improve its output.

  16. Push limit through subqueries to underlying sort, where possible.

  17. Fix inappropriate printing of never-measured times in EXPLAIN.

  18. Fix some infelicities in EXPLAIN output for parallel query plans.