Re: Performance degradation in TPC-H Q18

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh(dot)2007(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Performance degradation in TPC-H Q18
Date: 2017-03-06 23:59:02
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZhOAAgFUQ-ke80yik6SAOs_C9=PPS1ndMUB-bUbEk5ZA@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> The whole performance issue trigger this thread only exists when the
> hashtable sizes are mis-estimated, right? Turns out that after applying
> the just-committed changes, that "fixing" the bad-mixing and/or doing
> iteration that's not entirely in hash-order, slighty degrades
> performance. The difference is that without either of those additional
> changes, we resize to the "right" size very early, when the hashtable is
> barely filled (i.e. only few entries need to be moved), because the
> imbalance is observed at tsart. With the changes however the resizing
> happens when the table is pretty full (i.e. a lot of entries need to be
> moved). So the early imbalance ends up actually not hurting
> performance...

Hmm. I don't know what to do about that.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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