On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Dmitriy Sarafannikov <
dsarafanni...@yandex.ru> wrote:

> The following review has been posted through the commitfest application:
> make installcheck-world:  tested, passed
> Implements feature:       tested, passed
> Spec compliant:           tested, passed
> Documentation:            tested, passed
>
> This is simple and intuitive patch. Code looks pretty clear and well
> documented.
>
> I think it is good idea to decrease overhead on calling fake
> compressing/decomressing
> functions. This eliminates the need to implement the fetch function in
> such cases.
>
> I also tried to disable compress and decompress functions in contrib/cube:
> diff --git a/contrib/cube/cube--1.2.sql b/contrib/cube/cube--1.2.sql
> index dea2614888..26301b71d7 100644
> --- a/contrib/cube/cube--1.2.sql
> +++ b/contrib/cube/cube--1.2.sql
> @@ -370,8 +370,6 @@ CREATE OPERATOR CLASS gist_cube_ops
>
>         FUNCTION        1       g_cube_consistent (internal, cube,
> smallint, oid, internal),
>         FUNCTION        2       g_cube_union (internal, internal),
> -       FUNCTION        3       g_cube_compress (internal),
> -       FUNCTION        4       g_cube_decompress (internal),
>         FUNCTION        5       g_cube_penalty (internal, internal,
> internal),
>         FUNCTION        6       g_cube_picksplit (internal, internal),
>         FUNCTION        7       g_cube_same (cube, cube, internal),
>
> And it is enables IndexOnlyScan, this is expected behaviour.
> + -- test explain
> + set enable_seqscan to 'off';
> + set enable_bitmapscan to 'off';
> + select count(*) from test_cube where c && '(3000,1000),(0,0)';
> +  count
> + -------
> +      5
> + (1 row)
> +
> + explain analyze select c from test_cube where c && '(3000,1000),(0,0)';
> +                                                            QUERY PLAN
> + ------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> +  Index Only Scan using test_cube_ix on test_cube  (cost=0.15..56.43
> rows=16 width=32) (actual time=0.015..0.018 rows=5 loops=1)
> +    Index Cond: (c && '(3000, 1000),(0, 0)'::cube)
> +    Heap Fetches: 5
> +  Planning time: 0.038 ms
> +  Execution time: 0.032 ms
> + (5 rows)
>
> The new status of this patch is: Ready for Committer


It would be good if someone would write patch for removing useless
compress/decompress methods from builtin and contrib GiST opclasses.
Especially when it gives benefit in IndexOnlyScan enabling.

BTW, this change in the patch look suspicious for me.

> @@ -913,7 +931,6 @@ gistproperty(Oid index_oid, int attno,
>   ReleaseSysCache(tuple);
>
>   /* Now look up the opclass family and input datatype. */
> -
>   tuple = SearchSysCache1(CLAOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(opclass));
>   if (!HeapTupleIsValid(tuple))
>   {

We are typically evade changing formatting in fragments of codes not
directly touched by the patch.

------
Alexander Korotkov
Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com
The Russian Postgres Company

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