Re: Changing SQL Inlining Behaviour (or...?)

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Paul Ramsey <pramsey(at)cleverelephant(dot)ca>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Adam Brightwell <adam(dot)brightwell(at)crunchydata(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Peter Geoghegan <peter(dot)geoghegan(at)crunchydata(dot)com>, Joe Conway <joe(at)crunchydata(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Changing SQL Inlining Behaviour (or...?)
Date: 2019-01-21 23:27:24
Message-ID: 20190121232724.kbca4x5f3gqcu5ei@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2019-01-21 15:21:29 -0800, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> As a practical matter, most of the exact-test functions have a
> preamble that checks the bbox, so in the seqscan case having the
> operator along for the ride isn’t any advantage. In any event, if we
> do have exact tests w/o a lossy preamble, we could add that for v12,
> as this renovation won’t be a small one if we go this direction.

How expensive are the bbox checks in comparison to the exact tests? IOW,
how much of a problem is it to potentially do a bbox check twice?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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