On 2/28/24 15:38, Melanie Plageman wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 8:22 AM Tomas Vondra
> <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I haven't looked at the code very closely yet, but I decided to do some
>> basic benchmarks to see if/how this refactoring affects behavior.
>>
>> Attached is a simple .sh script that
>>
>> 1) creates a table with one of a couple basic data distributions
>> (uniform, linear, ...), with an index on top
>>
>> 2) runs a simple query with a where condition matching a known fraction
>> of the table (0 - 100%), and measures duration
>>
>> 3) the query is forced to use bitmapscan by disabling other options
>>
>> 4) there's a couple parameters the script varies (work_mem, parallel
>> workers, ...), the script drops caches etc.
>>
>> 5) I only have results for table with 1M rows, which is ~320MB, so not
>> huge. I'm running this for larger data set, but that will take time.
>>
>>
>> I did this on my two "usual" machines - i5 and xeon. Both have flash
>> storage, although i5 is SATA and xeon has NVMe. I won't share the raw
>> results, because the CSV is like 5MB - ping me off-list if you need the
>> file, ofc.
>
> I haven't looked at your results in detail yet. I plan to dig into
> this more later today. But, I was wondering if it was easy for you to
> run the shorter tests on just the commits before the last
> https://github.com/melanieplageman/postgres/tree/bhs_pgsr
> i.e. patches 0001-0013. Patch 0014 implements the streaming read user
> and removes all of the existing prefetch code. I would be interested
> to know if the behavior with just the preliminary refactoring differs
> at all.
>
Sure, I can do that. It'll take a couple hours to get the results, I'll
share them when I have them.
regards
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