Re: Abbreviated keys for Numeric

From: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz>
Subject: Re: Abbreviated keys for Numeric
Date: 2015-03-24 05:36:56
Message-ID: 87r3sf7yu9.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
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>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> writes:

Peter> By the way, there was another bug in this that I forgot to point
Peter> out, but removed, here:

"removed"? looks just the same in either of your patches...

Peter> + if (nss->estimating)
Peter> + {
Peter> + uint32 tmp = (uint32)result;
Peter> + addHyperLogLog(&nss->abbr_card, hash_uint32(tmp));
Peter> + }

Yes, that should have DatumGetUInt32() around the hash_uint32, thanks

Peter> (I simply operate on the raw Datum when hashing for hyperLogLog,
Peter> in a similar manner to the text opclass, which is safe with 8
Peter> byte datums + pass by value int64).

But this paragraph makes no sense, and the code currently in varlena.c
is just as wrong in its usage of hash_uint32 as I was.

--
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)

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