From: | Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> |
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To: | Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
Cc: | Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Microoptimization of Bitmapset usage in postgres_fdw |
Date: | 2018-05-30 14:37:27 |
Message-ID: | BB9AAEE6-294F-4296-A8F2-70AEE9EF3E70@yesql.se |
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> On 30 May 2018, at 09:36, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 9:10 PM, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
>> There are a couple of places in postgres_fdw where we check if the Bitmapset
>> has multiple members using bms_num_members(), without storing the returned
>> count. The attached patch instead use bms_membership() which is optimized for
>> just that usecase, and (IMO) makes for clearer code.
>
> +1 for that change. Some of those usages of bms_num_members() were
> added by me. Sorry for that. It was mostly because I wasn't aware of
> bms_membership() when I wrote that code. May be we should add a
> comment in the prologue of bms_num_members() like "Note: if the
> callers is interested only knowing whether the bitmapset has 0, 1 or
> more members, it should call bms_membership().". I understand that
> bms_membership() resides just below bms_num_members(), but 1.
> bms_membership doesn't sound like it would tell me that 2.
> bms_membership's prologue refers to bms_num_members, which should have
> been the other way; we want the developers to use bms_membership
> instead of bms_num_members(), when they land on bms_num_members. It's
> less likely that somebody landing on bms_membership would want to use
> bms_num_members().
That makes sense, I’ve added a second patch to this thread which expands the
comment on bms_num_members to make it clearer.
> I am not sure if this can b e squeezed into HEAD right now. It looks
> safe to do so. But in case not, please add this to the next commitfest
> so that it's not forgotten.
Will do, thanks for reviewing.
cheers ./daniel
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