From: | "Mark Cave-Ayland" <m(dot)cave-ayland(at)webbased(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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To: | "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | <strk(at)refractions(dot)net>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <postgis-devel(at)postgis(dot)refractions(dot)net> |
Subject: | Re: join selectivity |
Date: | 2004-12-16 18:51:14 |
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Hi Tom,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
> Sent: 16 December 2004 17:56
> To: Mark Cave-Ayland
> Cc: strk(at)refractions(dot)net; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org;
> postgis-devel(at)postgis(dot)refractions(dot)net
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] join selectivity
>
>
> "Mark Cave-Ayland" <m(dot)cave-ayland(at)webbased(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> > OK I think I've misunderstood something more fundamental
> than that; I
> > understood from what you said that the RESTRICT clause is used to
> > evaluate the cost of table1.geom && table2.geom against
> table2.geom &&
> > table1.geom (i.e. it is used to help decide which one should be seq
> > scanned and which should be index scanned in a nested loop
> node). So
> > is the trick here for a commutative operator to simply
> return the same
> > value for both cases, as other factors such as index size costs are
> > considered elsewhere?
>
> If the operator is commutative then the result should be too.
> Really you should not be thinking about costs at all when
> coding a selectivity
> estimator: its charter is to estimate how many rows will
> match the condition, not to estimate costs per se.
>
> Note however that these aren't really the "same case", as
> you'd be referencing two different columns with presumably
> different statistics.
Well at the moment PostGIS has a RESTRICT function that takes an expression
of the form <column> <op> <constant> where column is a column consisting of
geometries and constant is a bounding box. This is based upon histogram
statistics and works well.
The surprise came when writing the JOIN function and finding that the
RESTRICT clause was being called. Now I understand that this is part of the
nested loop and not the JOIN so that helps. But in the case of <column> <op>
<unknown constant>, if we're estimating the number of rows to return then
that becomes harder - I'm thinking pick a rectangle half the area of the
statistical rectangle for the column and return the number of rows within
that area.
> You should probably read the existing selectivity estimators
> in utils/adt/selfuncs.c. There's a fair amount of
> infrastructure code in that file that you could borrow.
> (It's not currently exported because it tends to change from
> version to version, but maybe we could think about making
> some of the routines global.)
OK will try and find some inspiration within.
Many thanks,
Mark.
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