Re: GSoC idea - Simulated annealing to search for query plans

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Grzegorz Parka <grzegorz(dot)parka(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: GSoC idea - Simulated annealing to search for query plans
Date: 2015-02-27 01:23:33
Message-ID: 8389.1425000213@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> On 02/26/2015 01:59 PM, Grzegorz Parka wrote:
>> I'm interested in one of old TODO items related to the optimizer -
>> 'Consider compressed annealing to search for query plans'.

> You might look at the earlier attempt to make the GEQO replacement
> "pluggable". That project failed to complete sufficiently to be a
> feature though, but it did enough to show that our current GEQO
> implementation was suboptimal.

> I'm currently searching for this project ... it was a GSOC project, but
> I think before they required posting to Google Code.

I seem to recall somebody demo'ing a simulated-annealing GEQO replacement
at PGCon a couple years back. It never got to the point of being a
submitted patch though.

regards, tom lane

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