Re: Avoid full GIN index scan when possible

From: Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Nikita Glukhov <n(dot)gluhov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Marc Cousin <cousinmarc(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Avoid full GIN index scan when possible
Date: 2020-01-17 22:13:33
Message-ID: CAPpHfdtvyDcMhwS4at2voAkPRa676CBzBG-LaVaBa5JDNDWbJg@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 12:48 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> writes:
> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 2:03 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> Hmm ... yeah, these test cases are not large enough to exercise any
> >> lossy-page cases, are they? I doubt we should try to make a new regression
> >> test that is that big. (But if there is one already, maybe we could add
> >> more test queries with it, instead of creating whole new tables?)
>
> > I've checked that none of existing tests for GIN can produce lossy
> > bitmap page with minimal work_mem = '64kB'. I've tried to generate
> > sample table with single integer column to get lossy page. It appears
> > that we need at least 231425 rows to get it. With wider rows, we
> > would need less number of rows, but I think total heap size wouldn't
> > be less.
> > So, I think we don't need so huge regression test to exercise this corner case.
>
> Ugh. Yeah, I don't want a regression test case that big either.
>
> v15 looks good to me.

Thanks! Pushed!

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Alexander Korotkov
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