Re: should check interrupts in BuildRelationExtStatistics ?

From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: should check interrupts in BuildRelationExtStatistics ?
Date: 2022-06-17 22:25:49
Message-ID: 20220617222549.GI29853@telsasoft.com
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On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 04:23:34PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 04, 2022 at 08:42:33PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > The fix seems to be to CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() within multi_sort_compare().
> > That would supercede the other two CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS I'd proposed, and
> > handle mcv, depends, and ndistinct all at once.
>
> Hmm. I have to admit that adding a CFI() in multi_sort_compare()
> stresses me a bit as it is dependent on the number of rows involved,
> and it can be used as a qsort routine.

That's exactly the problem for which I showed a backtrace - it took 10s of
seconds to do qsort, which is (uh) a human timescale and too long to be
unresponsive, even if I create on a table with many rows a stats object with a
lot of columns and a high stats target.

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