Re: Hash index build performance tweak from sorting

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(dot)riggs(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hash index build performance tweak from sorting
Date: 2022-11-23 19:08:46
Message-ID: 2a53b8a2-8b7f-6be5-cb01-0c645508f7be@enterprisedb.com
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On 11/23/22 14:07, David Rowley wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2022 at 03:34, Tomas Vondra
> <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> I did some simple benchmark with v2 and v3, using the attached script,
>> which essentially just builds hash index on random data, with different
>> data types and maintenance_work_mem values. And what I see is this
>> (median of 10 runs):
>
>> So to me it seems v2 performs demonstrably better, v3 is consistently
>> slower - not only compared to v2, but often also to master.
>
> Could this just be down to code alignment changes? There does not
> really seem to be any fundamental differences which would explain
> this.
>

Could be, but then how do we know the speedup with v2 is not due to code
alignment too?

regards

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Tomas Vondra
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