Re: Problem with grouping, uses Sort and GroupAggregate, HashAggregate is better(?)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Dutcher [mailto:dave@tridecap.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 5:12 PM
> To: Rolf Østvik (HA/EXA); pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
> Subject: RE: [PERFORM] Problem with grouping, uses Sort and
> GroupAggregate, HashAggregate is better(?)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org
> > [mailto:pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of
> > Rolf Østvik (HA/EXA)
>
> Have you tried "set enable_sort=off" with 8.1.2?  I'm not
> sure if that will
> change anything because it has to do at least one sort.  Its
> just a lots
> faster to do a hashagg + small sort than one big sort in this
> case.  (I
> wonder if there should be enable_groupagg?)

Did you mean enable_sort = 'off' for 8.2.1?


I tried to set enable_sort = 'off' for both the
8.1.4 server and the 8.2.1 server.
Both servers used the same plan as Run 4 and Run 3 respectively.
There were of course some changes in the planner cost for the sort
steps, but the execution times was of course the same.

Regards
Rolf Østvik