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Re: Default setting for enable_hashagg_disk

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

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From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-07-25T16:38:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-docs 
On Fri, 2020-07-24 at 21:16 +0200, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> Surely more recursive spilling should do more I/O, but the Disk Usage
> reported by explain analyze does not show anything like ...

I suspect that's because of disk reuse in logtape.c. 

Regards,
	Jeff Davis

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.