Re: POC: GROUP BY optimization

From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Zhihong Yu <zyu(at)yugabyte(dot)com>, "Andrey V(dot) Lepikhov" <a(dot)lepikhov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: POC: GROUP BY optimization
Date: 2022-08-18 01:32:14
Message-ID: CAApHDvr+95wJcABsqSXWcBa+yyUmJ2bq_mnZs9dUnaOi3XRVMg@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 at 02:46, Tomas Vondra
<tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> So I don't think the current costing is wrong, but it certainly is more
> complex. But the test does not test what it intended - I have two ideas
> how to make it work:
>
> 1) increase the number of rows in the table
>
> 2) increase cpu_operator_cost (for that one test?)
>
> 3) tweak the costing somehow, to increase the cost a bit

Why not, 4) SET parallel_setup_cost = 0; there are plenty of other
places we do just that so we get a parallel plan without having to
generate enough cost to drown out the parallel worker startup cost.

Here are a couple of patches to demo the idea.

David

Attachment Content-Type Size
fix_partitionwise_aggregate_test_master.patch text/plain 2.1 KB
fix_partitionwise_aggregate_test_pg15.patch text/plain 7.7 KB

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