Re: PG 15 (and to a smaller degree 14) regression due to ExprEvalStep size

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Nikita Glukhov <n(dot)gluhov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Subject: Re: PG 15 (and to a smaller degree 14) regression due to ExprEvalStep size
Date: 2022-06-17 05:22:28
Message-ID: 20220617052228.mjwns6ugspihamsc@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2022-06-17 16:53:31 +1200, David Rowley wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2022 at 15:33, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> wrote:
> > Have you tried this with the insert benchmark [1]?
>
> I was mostly focusing on the performance of the hashed saop feature
> after having removed the additional fields that pushed ExprEvalStep
> over 64 bytes in 14.
>
> I agree it would be good to do further benchmarking to see if there's
> anything else that's snuck into 15 that's slowed that benchmark down,
> but we can likely work on that after we get the ExprEvalStep size back
> to 64 bytes again.

I did reproduce a regression between 14 and 15, using both pgbench -Mprepared
-S (scale 1) and TPC-H Q01 (scale 5). Between 7-10% - not good, particularly
that that's not been found so far. Fixing the json size issue gets that down
to ~2%. Not sure what that's caused by yet.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Attachment Content-Type Size
v1-0001-wip-fix-EEOP_HASHED_SCALARARRAYOP-state-width.patch text/x-diff 5.5 KB
v1-0002-WIP-Fix-EEOP_JSON_CONSTRUCTOR-and-EEOP_JSONEXPR-s.patch text/x-diff 908 bytes

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