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Tomas Vondra authored
When building multi-column MCV lists, we compute base frequency for each item, i.e. a product of per-column frequencies for values from the item. As a value may be in multiple groups, the code was scanning the whole array of groups while adding items to the MCV list. This works fine as long as the number of distinct groups is small, but it's easy to trigger trigger O(N^2) behavior, especially after increasing statistics target. This commit precomputes frequencies for values in all columns, so that when computing the base frequency it's enough to make a simple bsearch lookup in the array. Backpatch to 12, where multi-column MCV lists were introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190618205920.qtlzcu73whfpfqne@development
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