bizgres - bizgres: This patch improves the planner.

From: llonergan(at)pgfoundry(dot)org (User Llonergan)
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: bizgres - bizgres: This patch improves the planner.
Date: 2005-07-23 04:45:06
Message-ID: 20050723044506.D84B51125F58@pgfoundry.org
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This patch improves the planner.
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Dawid Kuroczko <qnex42(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> qnex=# EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM log NATURAL JOIN useragents LIMIT 1;

>> Limit (cost=15912.20..15912.31 rows=1 width=272)
>> -> Hash Join (cost=15912.20..5328368.96 rows=47044336 width=272)

>> If I set enable_hashjoin=false:

>> qnex=# EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT * FROM log NATURAL LEFT JOIN useragents LIMIT 1;

>> Limit (cost=0.00..3.07 rows=1 width=272) (actual time=74.214..74.216
>> rows=1 loops=1)
>> -> Nested Loop Left Join (cost=0.00..144295895.01 rows=47044336
>> width=272) (actual time=74.204..74.204 rows=1 loops=1)

> This is quite strange. The nestloop plan definitely should be preferred
> in the context of the LIMIT, considering that it has far lower estimated
> cost. And it is preferred in simple tests for me.

After a suitable period of contemplating my navel, I figured out
what is going on here: the total costs involved are large enough that
the still-fairly-high startup cost of the hash is disregarded by
compare_fuzzy_path_costs(), and so the nestloop is discarded as not
having any significant potential advantage in startup time.

I think that this refutes the original scheme of using the same fuzz
factor for both startup and total cost comparisons, and therefore
propose the attached patch.
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Modified Files:
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bizgres/postgresql/src/backend/optimizer/util:
pathnode.c (r1.2 -> r1.3)
(http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/bizgres/bizgres/postgresql/src/backend/optimizer/util/pathnode.c.diff?r1=1.2&r2=1.3)

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