Re: Gather Merge

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Rushabh Lathia
<rushabh.lathia@gmail.com> wrote:
> Query 4:  With GM 7901.480 -> Without GM 9064.776
> Query 5:  With GM 53452.126 -> Without GM 55059.511
> Query 9:  With GM 52613.132 -> Without GM 98206.793
> Query 15: With GM 68051.058 -> Without GM 68918.378
> Query 17: With GM 129236.075 -> Without GM 160451.094
> Query 20: With GM 259144.232 -> Without GM 306256.322
> Query 21: With GM 153483.497 -> Without GM 168169.916
>
> Here from the results we can see that query 9, 17 and 20 are the one which
> show good performance benefit with the Gather Merge.

Were all other TPC-H queries unaffected? IOW, did they have the same
plan as before with your patch applied? Did you see any regressions?

I assume that this patch has each worker use work_mem for its own
sort, as with hash joins today. One concern with that model when
testing is that you could end up with a bunch of internal sorts for
cases with a GM node, where you get one big external sort for cases
without one. Did you take that into consideration?

-- 
Peter Geoghegan