Re: [HACKERS] to-do item for explain analyze of hash aggregates?

On 2017-04-24 21:13:16 +0200, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> On 04/24/2017 08:52 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> > On 2017-04-24 11:42:12 -0700, Jeff Janes wrote:
> > > The explain analyze of the hash step of a hash join reports something like
> > > this:
> > >
> > >    ->  Hash  (cost=458287.68..458287.68 rows=24995368 width=37) (actual
> > > rows=24995353 loops=1)
> > >          Buckets: 33554432  Batches: 1  Memory Usage: 2019630kB
> > >
> > >
> > > Should the HashAggregate node also report on Buckets and Memory Usage?  I
> > > would have found that useful several times.  Is there some reason this is
> > > not wanted, or not possible?
> >
> > I've wanted that too.  It's not impossible at all.

> Why wouldn't that be possible? We probably can't use exactly the same
> approach as Hash, because hashjoins use custom hash table while hashagg uses
> dynahash IIRC. But why couldn't measure the amount of memory by looking at
> the memory context, for example?

Doesn't use dynahash anymore (but a simplehash.h style table) anymore,
but that should actually make it simpler, not harder.

- Andres