Re: On disable_cost

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Alena Rybakina <a(dot)rybakina(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
Cc: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: On disable_cost
Date: 2024-10-02 19:08:03
Message-ID: 7f6f41796b8d110dc1ef6e7898ea35eab9345144.camel@cybertec.at
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On Wed, 2024-10-02 at 21:31 +0300, Alena Rybakina wrote:
> Honestly, I like this patch. Before this patch, when disabling any algorithm
> in the optimizer, the cost increased significantly and I’m not sure that this
> was a reliable solution due to the fact that the cost even without disabling
> can be greatly increased because of the high cardinality, for example.
>
> Right there, the mechanism is simple and more honest in my opinion - we simply
> count the number of disabled nodes and discard the paths with the largest
> number of them.

I have no issue with this way of handling disabled plan nodes, I only
complained about the verbosity of the EXPLAIN output.

I don't want to see disabled nodes propagated all the way up the tree,
and I would like the output suppressed by default.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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