Hi,

On 2020-03-23 13:29:02 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-03-21 at 18:26 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > I don't see how? That'd require making the hash bucket addressing
> > deal
> > with variable sizes, which'd be bad for performance reasons. Since
> > there
> > can be a aggstate->numtrans AggStatePerGroupDatas for each hash table
> > entry, I don't see how to avoid a variable size?
> 
> It would not vary for a given hash table. Do you mean the compile-time
> specialization (of simplehash.h) would not work any more?

Yes.


> If we aren't storing the "additional" inline in the hash entry, I don't
> see any purpose for the argument to BuildTupleHashTableExt(), nor the
> purpose of the "entrysize" field of TupleHashTableData.

Yea, that was my conclusion too. It looked like Andrew was going to
commit a fix, but that hasn't happened yet.

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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