Re: Avoiding hash join batch explosions with extreme skew and weird stats

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 3:09 PM Melanie Plageman
<melanieplageman@gmail.com> wrote:
> One question I have is, how would the OR'd together bitmap be
> propagated to workers after the first chunk? That is, when there are
> no tuples left in the outer bunch, for a given inner chunk, would you
> load the bitmaps from each worker into memory, OR them together, and
> then write the updated bitmap back out so that each worker starts with
> the updated bitmap?

I was assuming we'd elect one participant to go read all the bitmaps,
OR them together, and generate all the required null-extended tuples,
sort of like the PHJ_BUILD_ALLOCATING, PHJ_GROW_BATCHES_ALLOCATING,
PHJ_GROW_BUCKETS_ALLOCATING, and/or PHJ_BATCH_ALLOCATING states only
involve one participant being active at a time. Now you could hope for
something better -- why not parallelize that work?  But on the other
hand, why not start simple and worry about that in some future patch
instead of right away? A committed patch that does something good is
better than an uncommitted patch that does something AWESOME.