Re: POC: GROUP BY optimization

Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>, "Andrey V. Lepikhov" <a.lepikhov@postgrespro.ru>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-08-18T07:29:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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  1. Restore preprocess_groupclause()

  2. Rename PathKeyInfo to GroupByOrdering

  3. Add invariants check to get_useful_group_keys_orderings()

  4. Fix asymmetry in setting EquivalenceClass.ec_sortref

  5. Multiple revisions to the GROUP BY reordering tests

  6. Get rid of pg_class usage in SJE regression tests

  7. Rename index "abc" in aggregates.sql

  8. Explore alternative orderings of group-by pathkeys during optimization.

  9. Generalize the common code of adding sort before processing of grouping

  10. Fix out-dated comment in preprocess_groupclause()

  11. Force parallelism in partition_aggregate

  12. Optimize order of GROUP BY keys


On 8/18/22 03:32, David Rowley wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 at 02:46, Tomas Vondra
> <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> So I don't think the current costing is wrong, but it certainly is more
>> complex. But the test does not test what it intended - I have two ideas
>> how to make it work:
>>
>> 1) increase the number of rows in the table
>>
>> 2) increase cpu_operator_cost (for that one test?)
>>
>> 3) tweak the costing somehow, to increase the cost a bit
> 
> Why not, 4) SET parallel_setup_cost = 0;  there are plenty of other
> places we do just that so we get a parallel plan without having to
> generate enough cost to drown out the parallel worker startup cost.
> 
> Here are a couple of patches to demo the idea.
> 

Yeah, that's an option too. I should have mentioned it along with the
cpu_operator_cost.

BTW would you mind taking a look at the costing? I think it's fine, but
it would be good if someone not involved in the patch takes a look.


regards

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Tomas Vondra
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