pgsql: Improve planner's choices about when to use hashing vs sorting

From: tgl(at)postgresql(dot)org (Tom Lane)
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Improve planner's choices about when to use hashing vs sorting
Date: 2010-02-10 03:38:35
Message-ID: 20100210033835.8C4A57541B9@cvs.postgresql.org
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Improve planner's choices about when to use hashing vs sorting for DISTINCT.

The previous coding missed a bet by sometimes picking the "sorted" path
from query_planner even though hashing would be preferable. To fix, we have
to be willing to make the choice sooner. This contorts things a little bit,
but I thought of a factorization that makes it not too awful.

Modified Files:
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pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/plan:
planner.c (r1.263 -> r1.264)
(http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c?r1=1.263&r2=1.264)

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