Re: Use extended statistics to estimate (Var op Var) clauses - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zhihong Yu
Subject Re: Use extended statistics to estimate (Var op Var) clauses
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Msg-id CALNJ-vQEPk6j2heB1_RicdfnrmQyLuaWbH_o5ZXjEWMR0nHo0Q@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Use extended statistics to estimate (Var op Var) clauses  (Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 6:04 PM Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
On 8/31/21 00:14, Zhihong Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> For patch 0002,
>
> +                   s1 = statext_clauselist_selectivity(root, clauses,
> varRelid,
> +                                                       jointype,
> sjinfo, rel,
> +                                                       
> &estimatedclauses, false);
> +
> +                   estimated = (bms_num_members(estimatedclauses) == 1);
>
> I took a look at clauselist_apply_dependencies() (called by
> statext_clauselist_selectivity) where estimatedclauses is modified.
> Since the caller would not use the returned Selectivity if number of
> elements in estimatedclauses is greater than 1, I wonder
> if a parameter can be added to clauselist_apply_dependencies() which
> indicates early return if the second element is added to estimatedclauses.
>

Hmmm, I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you suggesting there's a
bug in not updating the bitmap, or would this be an optimization? Can
you give an example of a query affected by this?

Hi,
My previous comment was from 3 months ago - let me see if I can come up with an example.

Cheers 

regards

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Tomas Vondra
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