[Etsuro Fujita <fujita.etsuro@lab.ntt.co.jp>]

Hi,

I noticed yet another thing while updating the patch for pushing down
ORDER BY LIMIT.  Let me explain.  When costing foreign paths on the
basis of local statistics, we calculate/cache the costs of an unsorted
foreign path, and re-use them to estimate the costs of presorted foreign
paths, as shown below.  BUT: we fail to re-use them for some typical
queries, such as "select * from ft1 order by a", due to
fpinfo->rel_startup_cost=0, leading to doing the same cost calculation
repeatedly.

        /*
         * We will come here again and again with different set of pathkeys
         * that caller wants to cost. We don't need to calculate the cost of
         * bare scan each time. Instead, use the costs if we have cached
them
         * already.
         */
        if (fpinfo->rel_startup_cost > 0 && fpinfo->rel_total_cost > 0)
        {
            startup_cost = fpinfo->rel_startup_cost;
            run_cost = fpinfo->rel_total_cost - fpinfo->rel_startup_cost;
        }

I think we should use "fpinfo->rel_startup_cost >= 0" here, not
"fpinfo->rel_startup_cost > 0".  Also, it would be possible that the
total cost calculated is zero in corner cases (eg, seq_page_cost=0 and
cpu_tuple_cost=0 for the example), so I think we should change the total
cost part as well.  Attached is a patch for that.

Best regards,
Etsuro Fujita

Attachments:

  [text/x-patch] yet-another-fix-for-estimate_path_cost_size.patch (752B, ../5C4AF3F3.4060409@lab.ntt.co.jp/2-yet-another-fix-for-estimate_path_cost_size.patch)
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*** a/contrib/postgres_fdw/postgres_fdw.c
--- b/contrib/postgres_fdw/postgres_fdw.c
***************
*** 2625,2631 **** estimate_path_cost_size(PlannerInfo *root,
  		 * bare scan each time. Instead, use the costs if we have cached them
  		 * already.
  		 */
! 		if (fpinfo->rel_startup_cost > 0 && fpinfo->rel_total_cost > 0)
  		{
  			startup_cost = fpinfo->rel_startup_cost;
  			run_cost = fpinfo->rel_total_cost - fpinfo->rel_startup_cost;
--- 2625,2631 ----
  		 * bare scan each time. Instead, use the costs if we have cached them
  		 * already.
  		 */
! 		if (fpinfo->rel_startup_cost >= 0 && fpinfo->rel_total_cost >= 0)
  		{
  			startup_cost = fpinfo->rel_startup_cost;
  			run_cost = fpinfo->rel_total_cost - fpinfo->rel_startup_cost;