Boaz Ben-Zvi created DRILL-5446:
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             Summary: Offset Vector in VariableLengthVectors may waste up to 
256KB per value vector
                 Key: DRILL-5446
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-5446
             Project: Apache Drill
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Execution - Relational Operators
    Affects Versions: 1.10.0
            Reporter: Boaz Ben-Zvi
            Assignee: Boaz Ben-Zvi
             Fix For: 1.11.0


In exec/vector/src/main/codegen/templates/VariableLengthVectors.java -- the 
implementation uses an "offset vector" to note the BEGINNING of each variable 
length element. In order to find the length (i.e. the END of the element), need 
to look at the FOLLOWING element. 
  This requires the "offset vector" to have ONE MORE entry than the total 
number of elements -- in order to find the END of the LAST element.
  Some places in the code (e.g., the hash table) use the maximum number of 
elements - 64K ( = 65536 ).  And each entry in the "offset vector" is 4-byte 
UInt4, hence looks like needing 256KB. 
  However because of that "ONE MORE", the code in this case allocates for 
65537, thus (rounding to next power of 2) allocating 512KB, where half is not 
used !!!! 
 (And this is per each varchar value vector, per each batch; e.g., in the qa 
test Functional/aggregates/tpcds_variants/text/aggregate25.q where there are 10 
key columns, each hash-table batch is wasting 2.5MB !).

Possible fix: change the logic in VariableLengthVectors.java to keep the END 
point of each variable length element - the first element's beginning is always 
ZERO, so it need not be kept.

 



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