Make simplehash.h grow hashtable in additional cases.
Increase the size when either the distance between actual and optimal slot grows too large, or when too many subsequent entries would have to be moved. This addresses reports that the simplehash performed, sometimes considerably, worse than dynahash. The reason turned out to be that insertions into the hashtable where, due to the use of parallel query, in effect done from another hashtable, in hash-value order. If the target hashtable, due to mis-estimation, was sized a lot smaller than the source table(s) that lead to very imbalanced tables; a lot of entries in many close-by buckets from the source tables were inserted into a single, wider, bucket on the target table. As the growth factor was solely computed based on the fillfactor, the performance of the table decreased further and further. b81b5a96 was an attempt to address this problem for hash aggregates (but not for bitmap scans), but it turns out that the current method of mixing hash values often actually leaves neighboring hash-values close to each other, just in different value range. It might be worth revisiting that independently of the performance issues addressed in this patch.. To address that problem resize tables in two additional cases: Firstly when the optimal position for an entry would be far from the actual position, secondly when many entries would have to be moved to make space for the new entry (while satisfying the robin hood property). Due to the additional resizing threshold it seems possible, and testing confirms that so far, that a higher fillfactor doesn't hurt performance and saves a bit of memory. It seems better to increase it now, before a release containing any of this code, rather than wonder in some later release. The various boundaries aren't determined in a particularly scientific manner, they might need some fine-tuning. In all my tests the new code now, even with parallelism, performs at least as good as the old code, in several scenarios significantly better. Reported-By: Dilip Kumar, Robert Haas, Kuntal Ghosh Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-vagvuAydKG9VnWcoK=ADAhxmOa4ZTrmNsViBBooTnriQ@mail.gmail.com https://postgr.es/m/CAGz5QC+=fNTYgzMLTBUNeKt6uaWZFXJbkB5+7oWm-n9DwVxcLA@mail.gmail.com
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