Tweak nestloop costing to weight restart cost of inner path more heavily.

Without this, it was making some pretty silly decisions about whether an
expensive sub-SELECT should be the inner or outer side of a join...
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Tom Lane 2001-04-25 22:04:37 +00:00
parent cbeda8401a
commit a43f20cb0a
1 changed files with 12 additions and 4 deletions

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* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
* IDENTIFICATION
* $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/path/costsize.c,v 1.69 2001/03/22 03:59:34 momjian Exp $
* $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/path/costsize.c,v 1.70 2001/04/25 22:04:37 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@ -443,14 +443,22 @@ cost_nestloop(Path *path,
/* cost of source data */
/*
* NOTE: we assume that the inner path's startup_cost is paid once,
* not over again on each restart. This is certainly correct if the
* inner path is materialized. Are there any cases where it is wrong?
* NOTE: clearly, we must pay both outer and inner paths' startup_cost
* before we can start returning tuples, so the join's startup cost
* is their sum. What's not so clear is whether the inner path's
* startup_cost must be paid again on each rescan of the inner path.
* This is not true if the inner path is materialized, but probably
* is true otherwise. Since we don't yet have clean handling of the
* decision whether to materialize a path, we can't tell here which
* will happen. As a compromise, charge 50% of the inner startup cost
* for each restart.
*/
startup_cost += outer_path->startup_cost + inner_path->startup_cost;
run_cost += outer_path->total_cost - outer_path->startup_cost;
run_cost += outer_path->parent->rows *
(inner_path->total_cost - inner_path->startup_cost);
if (outer_path->parent->rows > 1)
run_cost += (outer_path->parent->rows - 1) * inner_path->startup_cost;
/*
* Number of tuples processed (not number emitted!). If inner path is