Re: [PATCH] ANALYZE: hash-accelerate MCV tracking for equality-only types

From: Ilia Evdokimov <ilya(dot)evdokimov(at)tantorlabs(dot)com>
To: Chengpeng Yan <chengpeng_yan(at)Outlook(dot)com>
Cc: Tatsuya Kawata <kawatatatsuya0913(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, John Naylor <johncnaylorls(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ANALYZE: hash-accelerate MCV tracking for equality-only types
Date: 2026-02-26 11:46:32
Message-ID: 4f51168a-3a3e-4bae-b2e9-ba7bb05c06f7@tantorlabs.com
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Have you benchmarked this change except in first message in this thread?

While reviewing the patch more closely, I noticed
that compute_distinct_stats() is only used for types where we have =, !=
but not <. In practice, most common scalar types go through
compute_scalar_stats() instead.

That makes me wonder how often this optimization would actually trigger
in real workloads. Since compute_scalar_stats() is the more common path,
there's chance that the hash-table based improvement in
compute_distinct_stats() may not provide a noticeable overall benefit.

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Best regards,
Ilia Evdokimov,
Tantor Labs LLC,
https://tantorlabs.com/

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