On 23/01/2016 14:51, David Rowley wrote: > On 24 January 2016 at 00:56, Julien Rouhaud <julien.rouh...@dalibo.com> wrote: >> I wonder if in remove_useless_groupby_columns(), in the foreach loop you >> could change the >> >> + if (bms_subset_compare(pkattnos, relattnos) == BMS_SUBSET1) >> + { >> >> by something like >> >> >> + if (bms_num_members(relattnos) <= bms_num_members(pkattnos)) >> + continue; >> + >> + if (bms_is_subset(pkattnos, relattnos)) >> + { >> >> >> which may be cheaper. > > Thanks for looking over this again. > > I actually had that part written quite a few different ways before I > finally decided to use bms_subset_compare. I didn't benchmark, but I > thought 1 function call was better than 2, as I had it as > bms_is_subset(pkattnos, relattnos) && !bms_is_subset(relattnos, > pkattnos), and again with !bms_equal() instead of the 2nd subset test. > I figured 1 function call was better than 2, so finally settled on > bms_subset_compare(). I'm thinking that 3 function calls likely won't > make things better. I can't imagine it's going to cost much either > way, so I doubt it's worth trying to check whats faster. Although the > thing about bms_num_members() is that it's going to loop over each > word in the bitmap no matter what, whereas a subset check can abort > early in some cases. > >
FWIW, this code was simplified example. bms_num_members(relattnos) is already called a few lines before, so it'd be 1 function call against 2 function calls (and a var assignment). -- Julien Rouhaud http://dalibo.com - http://dalibo.org -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers