Hi,
I am still having trouble reconciling what happens under the HASH partitioning!. If I have text column forming the basis of PARTITIONED BY HASH, the HASH value used in the partitioning setup does not seem to match to `hashtext()` of that value
CREATE TABLE loopy (k TEXT PRIMARY KEY, something_else int) PARTITION BY HASH(k);
CREATE TABLE loopy_00 PARTITION OF loopy FOR VALUES WITH (MODULUS 32, REMAINDER 0);
CREATE TABLE loopy_01 PARTITION OF loopy FOR VALUES WITH (MODULUS 32, REMAINDER 1);
-- setup all tables till 31
=> explain select * from loopy where k='a';
QUERY PLAN
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Append (cost=0.15..2.38 rows=1 width=36)
-> Index Scan using loopy_30_pkey on loopy_30 (cost=0.15..2.37 rows=1 width=36)
Index Cond: (k = 'a'::text)
(3 rows)
So 'a' goes to 30
=> select hashtext('a'::text);
hashtext
------------
1075015857
(1 row)
=> select 1075015857::bit(32);
bit
----------------------------------
01000000000100110111000010110001
(1 row)
=> select 30::bit(32);
bit
----------------------------------
00000000000000000000000000011110
(1 row)
I am on intel cpu, x86_64, ubuntu lts 18.4.1
On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 9:37 AM Harry B <harrysungod@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,Since I didn't hear back on how to make partitioning work using a custom hash function, I ended up changing my app/client to use postgres' built-in hash method instead - I just needed them to match.At some point, I will need to revisit this and figure out how to have PG partition using a custom hash function other than the builtin, or may be pg will switch to xxhash or siphash.On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 9:41 PM Harry B <harrysungod@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi,I am interested in trying the hash partitioning method now available in 11 (trying the beta 4). However, I have the data already hashed at the application level across multiple postgres instances. If possible, I would like to keep these two hashing methods same. This would enable me to move a single partition (considering we have attach/detach methods available) from one instance to another and have queries work seamlessly.The application can control what data/query is sent to each instance - the only thing making this setup impossible is (a) the built-in HASH function not available/accessible to me outside of pg context, say, as a C library. and (b) I don't know how to sub a known hash function (say, murmur, xxhash, siphash) instead of the builtin hash function. I am not particularly insisting on any particular hash function, except for it to available outside of postgres (say as a C or Go library).Based on a discussion in the IRC channel, I was told I could try creating a custom hash function (postgres extension) and use it in RANGE or LIST partitioning with that _expression_.I have the following code installed as a postgres extension http://dpaste.com/2594KWM, takes an implementation of xxhash.c and sticks it in as a postgres extension †~/tmp/pge$ gcc -fPIC -I/usr/include/postgresql/11/server -c pge.c && gcc -shared -o pge.so pge.oProblem is that with this setup, partitioning of the writes/inserts work fine, but I don't see pg excluding the unnecessary partitions on read/queriesThis setup based on _expression_ also has other issues - I can't mark k as a primary key or have a unique key on that column. If it is declared as a hash partition, I can have those.This question may be related to this thread as well† surprisingly, this function works even if I don't compile in xxhash.c/o into the .so - that is yet another side mystery to figure out. It is like the symbol XXH64 is already available dynamically. I did have plpython installed at some point. but this is a separate issue.--Harry--Harry
Harry
