Re: A potential memory leak on Merge Join when Sort node is not below Materialize node

From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Ronan Dunklau <ronan(dot)dunklau(at)aiven(dot)io>, Önder Kalacı <onderkalaci(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: A potential memory leak on Merge Join when Sort node is not below Materialize node
Date: 2022-09-29 04:59:16
Message-ID: CAApHDvpozzg6hUmykziG4J9uU_g=OaPmFAGJMM=7qHf7ZQfpEw@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, 29 Sept 2022 at 14:32, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 6:13 PM David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Master:
> > latency average = 313.197 ms
> >
> > Patched:
> > latency average = 304.335 ms
> >
> > So not a very impressive speedup there (about 3%)
>
> Worth a try, at least. Having a more consistent interface is valuable
> in itself too.

Just testing the datum sort in nodeSort.c with the same table as
before but using the query:

select b from t1 order by b offset 1000000;

Master:
latency average = 344.763 ms

Patched:
latency average = 268.374 ms

about 28% faster.

I'll take this to another thread and put it in the next CF

David

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