higepon <hige...@gmail.com> wrote: > I found the current planner doesn't care about "lossy mode" on Bitmap Scan.
Good point. I saw the bad behavior on DBT-3 (TPC-H) benchmark before. Loss-less bitmap scan was faster than seq Scan, but lossy bitmap scan was slower than seq Scan: EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT * FROM test WHERE v < 0.2; -- default Bitmap Heap Scan on test (cost=3948.42..11005.77 rows=210588 width=8) (actual time=47.550..202.925 rows=200142) -- SET work_mem=64 (NOTICE: the cost is same as above!) Bitmap Heap Scan on test (cost=3948.42..11005.77 rows=210588 width=8) (actual time=52.057..358.145 rows=200142) -- SET enable_bitmapscan = off Seq Scan on test (cost=0.00..16924.70 rows=210588 width=8) (actual time=0.182..280.450 rows=200142) > My understanding is that we can know whether the plan is lossy or not > like following. Sure, we need it! Also, I hope some methods to determine whether the bitmap scan was lossy or not, and how amount of work_mem is required to do loss-less bitmap scan. For example, a new GUC variable trace_bitmapscan to print the information of bitmap scan, like trace_sort for sorting. Regards, --- ITAGAKI Takahiro NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers