On 02/26/2015 05:50 PM, Fabrízio de Royes Mello wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com
> <mailto:andres@2ndquadrant.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 2015-02-26 20:23:33 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> > Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com <mailto:josh@agliodbs.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.
>>
>> Yea, it was Jan Urbański (CCed).
>>
>
> And the project link: https://github.com/wulczer/saio
So what w'ere saying, Grzegorz, is that we would love to see someone
pick this up and get it to the point of making it a feature as a GSOC
project. I think if you can start from where Jan left off, you could
actually complete it.
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Josh Berkus
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