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Subject: Re: Improve EXPLAIN output for multicolumn B-Tree Index
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 00:31:09 +0900
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On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:12:25 +0000
<[email protected]> wrote:
> * Is this feature useful? Is there a possibility it will be accepted?
I think adding such information to EXPLAIN outputs is useful because it
will help users confirm the effect of a multicolumn index on a certain query
and decide to whether leave, drop, or recreate the index, and so on.
> * Are there any other ideas for determining if multicolumn indexes are
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> being used efficiently? Although I considered calculating the efficiency using
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> pg_statio_all_indexes.idx_blks_read and pg_stat_all_indexes.idx_tup_read,
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> I believe improving the EXPLAIN output is better because it can be output
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> per query and it's more user-friendly.
It seems for me improving EXPLAIN is a natural way to show information
on query optimization like index scans.
> * Is "Index Bound Cond" the proper term?I also considered changing
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> "Index Cond" to only show quals for the boundary condition and adding
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> a new term "Index Filter".
"Index Bound Cond" seems not intuitive for me because I could not find
description explaining what this means from the documentation. I like
"Index Filter" that implies the index has to be scanned.
> * Would it be better to add new interfaces to Index AM? Is there any case
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> to output the EXPLAIN for each index context? At least, I think it's worth
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> considering whether it's good for amcostestimate() to modify the
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> IndexPath directly as the PoC patch does.
I am not sure it is the best way to modify IndexPath in amcostestimate(), but
I don't have better ideas for now.
Regards,
Yugo Nagata
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> Regards,
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> Masahiro Ikeda
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> NTT DATA CORPORATION
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Yugo NAGATA <[email protected]>
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