On 11/28/2017 03:55 PM, Todd A. Cook wrote:
> On 11/27/17 23:03, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>> Note that the sample data has a lot of collisions:
>>
>> regression=# select hashint8(val), count(*) from reproducer group by 1
>> order by 2 desc;
>> hashint8 | count
>> -------------+-------
>> 441526644 | 2337
>> -1117776826 | 1221
>> -1202007016 | 935
>> -2068831050 | 620
>> 1156644653 | 538
>> 553783815 | 510
>> 259780770 | 444
>> 371047036 | 394
>> 915722575 | 359
>> ... etc etc ...
>
> In case it matters, the complete data set will have some outlier values
> with 10k to 100k collisions in this column.
>
In the original values? Not a big deal, I guess. It's the hashint8
collisions that's causing the infinite loop, i.e. different values with
the same hashint8 result.
regards
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