Re: pg_stat_statements and "IN" conditions

> On Mon, Jul 03, 2023 at 09:46:11PM -0700, Nathan Bossart wrote:

Thanks for reviewing.

> On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 01:27:34PM +0100, Dmitry Dolgov wrote:
> > +        If this parameter is on, two queries with an array will get the same
> > +        query identifier if the only difference between them is the number of
> > +        constants, both numbers is of the same order of magnitude and greater or
> > +        equal 10 (so the order of magnitude is greather than 1, it is not worth
> > +        the efforts otherwise).
>
> IMHO this adds way too much complexity to something that most users would
> expect to be an on/off switch.

This documentation is exclusively to be precise about how does it work.
Users don't have to worry about all this, and pretty much turn it
on/off, as you've described. I agree though, I could probably write this
text a bit differently.

> If I understand Álvaro's suggestion [0] correctly, he's saying that in
> addition to allowing "on" and "off", it might be worth allowing
> something like "powers" to yield roughly the behavior described above.
> I don't think he's suggesting that this "powers" behavior should be
> the only available option.

Independently of what Álvaro was suggesting, I find the "powers"
approach more suitable, because it answers my own concerns about the
previous implementation. Having "on"/"off" values means we would have to
scratch heads coming up with a one-size-fit-all default value, or to
introduce another option for the actual cut-off threshold. I would like
to avoid both of those options, that's why I went with "powers" only.

> Also, it seems counterintuitive that queries with fewer than 10
> constants are not merged.

Why? What would be your intuition using this feature?

> In the interest of moving this patch forward, I would suggest making it a
> simple on/off switch in 0002 and moving the "powers" functionality to a new
> 0003 patch.  I think separating out the core part of this feature might
> help reviewers.  As you can see, I got distracted by the complicated
> threshold logic and ended up focusing my first round of review there.

I would disagree. As I've described above, to me "powers" seems to be a
better fit, and the complicated logic is in fact reusing one already
existing function. Do those arguments sound convincing to you?