+1 to start from the Elasticsearch implementation for low-level query
execution tracing, which I think is from (pre-7.10) ASL2 licensed code?

That sounds helpful, even with the Heisenberg caveats.

Mike McCandless

http://blog.mikemccandless.com

On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 4:24 PM Adrien Grand <[email protected]> wrote:

> We have something like that in Elasticsearch that wraps queries in order
> to be able to report cost, matchCost and the number of calls to
> nextDoc/advance/matches/score/advanceShallow/getMaxScore for every node in
> the query tree.
>
> It's not perfect as it needs to disable some optimizations in order to
> work properly. For instance bulk scorers are disabled and conjunctions are
> not inlined, which means that clauses may run in a different order. So
> results need to be interpreted carefully as the way the query gets executed
> when observed may differ a bit from how it gets executed normally. That
> said it has still been useful in a number of cases. I don't think our
> implementation works when IndexSearcher is configured with an executor but
> we could maybe put it in sandbox and iterate from there?
>
> For your case, do you think it could be attributed to deleted docs?
> Deleted docs are checked before two-phase confirmation and collectors but
> after disjunctions/conjunctions of postings.
>
> Le jeu. 6 mai 2021 à 20:20, Michael Sokolov <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>> Do we have a way to understand how BooleanQuery (and other composite
>> queries) are advancing their child queries? For example, a simple
>> conjunction of two queries advances the more restrictive (lower
>> cost()) query first, enabling the more costly query to skip over more
>> documents. But we may not be making the best choice in every case, and
>> I would like to know, for some query, how we are doing. For example,
>> we could execute in a debugging mode, interposing something that wraps
>> or observes the Scorers in some way, gathering statistics about how
>> many documents are visited by each Scorer, which can be aggregated for
>> later analysis.
>>
>> This is motivated by a use case we have in which we currently
>> post-filter our query results in a custom collector using some filters
>> that we know to be expensive (they must be evaluated on every
>> document), but we would rather express these post-filters as Queries
>> and have them advanced during the main Query execution. However when
>> we tried to do that, we saw some slowdowns (in spite of marking these
>> Queries as high-cost) and I suspect it is due to the iteration order,
>> but I'm not sure how to debug.
>>
>> Suggestions welcome!
>>
>> -Mike
>>
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