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I've attached a patch which implements Bob Jenkin's hash function for

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PostgreSQL. This hash function replaces the one used by hash indexes and
the catalog cache. Hash joins use a different, relatively poor-quality
hash function, but I'll fix that later.

As suggested by Tom Lane, this patch also changes the size of the fixed
hash table used by the catalog cache to be a power-of-2 (instead of a
prime: I chose 256 instead of 257). This allows the catcache to lookup
hash buckets using a simple bitmask. This should improve the performance
of the catalog cache slightly, since the previous method (modulo a
prime) was slow.

In my tests, this improves the performance of hash indexes by between 4%
and 8%; the performance when using btree indexes or seqscans is
basically unchanged.

Neil Conway <neilconway@rogers.com>
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Bruce Momjian
2002-03-06 20:49:46 +00:00
parent 5b5cef9abd
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/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*
* btutils.c
* Utility code for Postgres btree implementation.
* hashutil.c
* Utility code for Postgres hash implementation.
*
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2001, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
* $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/access/hash/hashutil.c,v 1.27 2001/10/06 23:21:43 tgl Exp $
* $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/access/hash/hashutil.c,v 1.28 2002/03/06 20:49:43 momjian Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
ScanKey
_hash_mkscankey(Relation rel, IndexTuple itup, HashMetaPage metap)
_hash_mkscankey(Relation rel, IndexTuple itup)
{
ScanKey skey;
TupleDesc itupdesc;