Re: Potential Join Performance Issue

From: "Lawrence, Ramon" <ramon(dot)lawrence(at)ubc(dot)ca>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Michael Henderson" <mikecubed(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Potential Join Performance Issue
Date: 2009-01-08 03:44:03
Message-ID: 6EEA43D22289484890D119821101B1DF2C1864@exchange20.mercury.ad.ubc.ca
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> Has this been completed? TODO item?

> > > I'd be more inclined to deal with the issue by trying to establish
a
> > > "safety margin" in the estimate of whether the hash will go
> > multi-batch.
> > > IOW we should disuse_physical_tlist if the hash is estimated to be
> > close to but still within one batch.

I do not know how this issue was resolved. It is an issue that is very
important for multi-batch hash joins. The simplest resolution is to
disable physical_tlist on the outer relation for hash joins of more than
one batch. However, as discussed in the thread, more sophisticated
solutions are also viable.

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Ramon Lawrence

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