Re: significant slowdown of HashAggregate between 9.6 and 10

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <jdavis(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: significant slowdown of HashAggregate between 9.6 and 10
Date: 2020-06-05 01:57:58
Message-ID: 20200605015758.p64bz3srqi2a3pqr@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2020-06-04 18:22:03 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 11:41 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > +/* minimum number of initial hash table buckets */
> > +#define HASHAGG_MIN_BUCKETS 256
> >
> >
> > I don't really see much explanation for that part in the commit,
> > perhaps
> > Jeff can chime in?
>
> I did this in response to a review comment (point #5):
>
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20200219191636.gvdywx32kwbix6kd@development
>
> Tomas suggested a min of 1024, and I thought I was being more
> conservative choosing 256. Still too high, I guess?

> I can lower it. What do you think is a reasonable minimum?

I don't really see why there needs to be a minimum bigger than 1?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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