Hi Tomas,
Thank you for the question.
The 15-table and 20-table results I shared were obtained using a synthetic join workload designed to stress join-order planning and measure planning-time scaling, rather than a JOB or TPC-H query.
Each query is essentially a left-deep chain of equality joins over simple tables. For reference, the structure is equivalent to:
15-table join
SELECT count(*)
FROM t1
JOIN t2 ON t1.id = t2.id
JOIN t3 ON t2.id = t3.id
...
JOIN t15 ON t14.id = t15.id;
20-table join
SELECT count(*)
FROM t1
JOIN t2 ON t1.id = t2.id
JOIN t3 ON t2.id = t3.id
...
JOIN t20 ON t19.id = t20.id;
Regarding planner settings:
-geqo_threshold was set to:
a high value (e.g., 100) to force DP
a low value (e.g., 2) to allow GEQO/GOO
-enable_goo_join_search was toggled on/off depending on the comparison being measured.
-Other planner parameters, including join_collapse_limit, were left at their default values.
So these experiments mainly evaluate planning-time scaling and basic plan sanity on a controlled join graph, rather than realistic workload plan quality.
I’m currently preparing additional tests using selected JOB queries to provide more meaningful plan-quality comparisons and will share those results once available.
Regards
Lakshmi
