Excessive disk usage in WindowAgg

From: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Excessive disk usage in WindowAgg
Date: 2019-09-24 11:49:54
Message-ID: 87a7ator8n.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
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This one just came up on IRC:

create table tltest(a integer, b text, c text, d text);
insert into tltest
select i, repeat('foo',100), repeat('foo',100), repeat('foo',100)
from generate_series(1,100000) i;
set log_temp_files=0;
set client_min_messages=log;

select count(a+c) from (select a, count(*) over () as c from tltest s1) s;
LOG: temporary file: path "base/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp82513.3", size 92600000

Using 92MB of disk for one integer seems excessive; the reason is clear
from the explain:

QUERY PLAN
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aggregate (cost=16250.00..16250.01 rows=1 width=8) (actual time=1236.260..1236.260 rows=1 loops=1)
Output: count((tltest.a + (count(*) OVER (?))))
-> WindowAgg (cost=0.00..14750.00 rows=100000 width=12) (actual time=1193.846..1231.216 rows=100000 loops=1)
Output: tltest.a, count(*) OVER (?)
-> Seq Scan on public.tltest (cost=0.00..13500.00 rows=100000 width=4) (actual time=0.006..14.361 rows=100000 loops=1)
Output: tltest.a, tltest.b, tltest.c, tltest.d

so the whole width of the table is being stored in the tuplestore used
by the windowagg.

In create_windowagg_plan, we have:

/*
* WindowAgg can project, so no need to be terribly picky about child
* tlist, but we do need grouping columns to be available
*/
subplan = create_plan_recurse(root, best_path->subpath, CP_LABEL_TLIST);

Obviously we _do_ need to be more picky about this; it seems clear that
using CP_SMALL_TLIST | CP_LABEL_TLIST would be a win in many cases.
Opinions?

--
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)

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