Re: Re: custom hash-based COUNT(DISTINCT) aggregate - unexpectedly high memory consumption

From: "Tomas Vondra" <tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz>
To: "Atri Sharma" <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Tomas Vondra" <tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz>, "Pg Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: custom hash-based COUNT(DISTINCT) aggregate - unexpectedly high memory consumption
Date: 2013-10-08 10:45:00
Message-ID: 5134df4261525cabdf51b505be5bbaf2.squirrel@sq.gransy.com
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On 8 Říjen 2013, 11:42, Atri Sharma wrote:
>>
>> I've made some significant improvements in the chaining version (in the
>> master branch), now getting about the memory consumption I've estimated.
>>
> I agree, we can hope to reduce the memory consumption by making changes in
> the current chaining implementation. I would like to look into changing
> the data structure used for chaining from singly linked list to maybe skip
> list or something else.

Just to be sure - I haven't been messing with the HashAggregate
implementation directly, but with a custom aggregate. But feel free to
tweak the built-in hash table ;-)

Tomas

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