On 22 September 2014 12:35, Heikki Linnakangas: > > I have observed a scope of considerable performance improvement in- > case of index by a very minor code change. > > Consider the below schema: > > > > create table tbl2(id1 int, id2 varchar(10), id3 int); create index > > idx2 on tbl2(id2, id3); > > > > Query as: > > select count(*) from tbl2 where id2>'a' and > > id3>990000; > > > > As per current design, it takes following steps to retrieve index > tuples: > > > > 1. Find the scan start position by searching first position in > BTree as per the first key condition i.e. as per id2>'a' > > > > 2. Then it fetches each tuples from position found in step-1. > > > > 3. For each tuple, it matches all scan key condition, in our > example it matches both scan key condition. > > > > 4. If condition match, it returns the tuple otherwise scan > stops. > > > > Now problem is here that already first scan key condition is matched > to find the scan start position (Step-1), so it is obvious that any > further tuple also will match the first scan key condition (as records > are sorted). > > So comparison on first scan key condition again in step-3 seems to be > redundant. > > > > So my proposal is to skip the condition check on the first scan key > condition for every tuple. > > The same happens in a single-column case. If you have a query like > "SELECT * FROM tbl2 where id2 > 'a'", once you've found the start > position of the scan, you know that all the rows that follow match too.
Very much true. > > I would like to submit the patch for this improvement. > > Please provide your feedback. Also let me know if I am missing > something. > > Yeah, sounds like a good idea. This scenario might not arise very often, > but it should be cheap to check, so I doubt it will add any measurable > overhead to the cases where the optimization doesn't help. Thanks, I shall start to prepare a patch for this optimization and share in 1 or 2 days. Thanks and Regards, Kumar Rajeev Rastogi -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers