BUG #5834: Planner - cost for hash scan too small

Started by pasman pasmańskiover 15 years ago2 messagesbugs
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#1pasman pasmański
pasman.p@gmail.com

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 5834
Logged by: Pasman
Email address: pasman.p@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 8.4.6
Operating system: WinXP sp2
Description: Planner - cost for hash scan too small
Details:

Postgres not estimate cost of creating hash index
when it plans hash join. Use case:

create table test1 as
select i,'aaaaaaaaaa'::text as t1 from generate_series(1,10000) g(i);
analyze test1;

create table test2 as
select i,'aaaaaaaaaa'::text as t2 from generate_series(1,10000) g(i);
analyze test2;

explain analyze
select * from test1 natural join test2;

"Hash Join (cost=280.00..685.00 rows=10000 width=26) (actual
time=48.914..125.526 rows=10000 loops=1)"
" Hash Cond: (test1.i = test2.i)"
" -> Seq Scan on test1 (cost=0.00..155.00 rows=10000 width=15) (actual
time=0.032..21.693 rows=10000 loops=1)"
" -> Hash (cost=155.00..155.00 rows=10000 width=15) (actual
time=48.835..48.835 rows=10000 loops=1)"
" -> Seq Scan on test2 (cost=0.00..155.00 rows=10000 width=15)
(actual time=0.018..24.045 rows=10000 loops=1)"
"Total runtime: 146.291 ms"

Cost for creating hash (155.00) is equal to
cost of sequential scan on test2 but
real time is 2 times bigger.

I think that cost of Hash node ought to include costs of calculating hash
function and inserting tuple into index:

cost of seq scan 
+ numtuples*cpu_operator_cost 
+ numtuples*cpu_index_tuple_cost
#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: pasman pasmański (#1)
Re: BUG #5834: Planner - cost for hash scan too small

"Pasman" <pasman.p@gmail.com> writes:

Postgres not estimate cost of creating hash index
when it plans hash join. Use case:

Yes, it does figure those costs, but they're just folded into the cost
of the hashjoin. The numbers shown for the Hash subnode are only
cosmetic.

regards, tom lane