Re: bad JIT decision

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)elevated-dev(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: bad JIT decision
Date: 2020-07-27 23:02:56
Message-ID: 20200727230256.GA31992@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2020-Jul-27, Scott Ribe wrote:

> > On Jul 27, 2020, at 4:00 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > I don't quite understand why is it that a table with 1000 partitions
> > means that JIT compiles the thing 1000 times. Sure, it is possible that
> > some partitions have a different column layout, but it seems an easy bet
> > that most cases are going to have identical column layout, and so tuple
> > deforming can be shared. (I'm less sure about sharing a compile of an
> > expression, since the varno would vary. But presumably there's a way to
> > take the varno as an input value for the compiled expr too?) Now I
> > don't actually know how this works so please correct if I misunderstand
> > it.
>
> I'm guessing it's because of inlining. You could optimize a function
> that takes parameters, no problem. But what's happening is inlining,
> with parameters, then optimizing.

Are you saying that if you crank jit_inline_above_cost beyond this
query's total cost, the problem goes away?

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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