po 17. 4. 2023 o 15:26 Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> napísal(a):
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> On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 1:20 AM Miroslav Bendik <miroslav.bendik@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Postgres allows incremental sort only for ordered indexes. Function
>> build_index_paths dont build partial order paths for access methods
>> with order support. My patch adds support for incremental ordering
>> with access method.
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> I think this is a meaningful optimization. I reviewed the patch and
> here are the comments from me.
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> * I understand the new param 'match_pathkeys_length_p' is used to tell
> how many presorted keys are useful. I think list_length(orderbyclauses)
> will do the same. So there is no need to add the new param, thus we can
> reduce the code diffs.
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> * Now that match_pathkeys_to_index() returns a prefix of the pathkeys
> rather than returns NIL immediately when there is a failure to match, it
> seems the two local variables 'orderby_clauses' and 'clause_columns' are
> not necessary any more. I think we can instead lappend the matched
> 'expr' and 'indexcol' to '*orderby_clauses_p' and '*clause_columns_p'
> directly. In this way we can still call 'return' when we come to a
> failure to match.
>
> * In build_index_paths(), I think the diff can be reduced to
>
> - if (orderbyclauses)
> - useful_pathkeys = root->query_pathkeys;
> - else
> - useful_pathkeys = NIL;
> + useful_pathkeys = list_truncate(list_copy(root->query_pathkeys),
> + list_length(orderbyclauses));
>
> * Several comments in match_pathkeys_to_index() are out of date. We
> need to revise them to cope with the change.
>
> * I think it's better to provide a test case.
>
> Thanks
> Richard
Thank you for advice,
here is an updated patch with proposed changes.
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Best regards
Miroslav