Case: Pushing Down Sort Operations to DNs

Symptom

In an execution plan, more than 95% of the execution time is spent on window agg performed on the CN. In this case, sum is performed for the two columns separately, and then another sum is performed for the separate sum results of the two columns. After this, trunc and sort are performed in sequence.

The table structure is as follows:

    
         CREATE TABLE public.test(imsi int,L4_DW_THROUGHPUT int,L4_UL_THROUGHPUT int)
with (orientation = column) DISTRIBUTE BY hash(imsi);

The query statements are as follows:

    
         SELECT COUNT(1) over() AS DATACNT,
IMSI AS IMSI_IMSI,
CAST(TRUNC(((SUM(L4_UL_THROUGHPUT) + SUM(L4_DW_THROUGHPUT))), 0) AS
DECIMAL(20)) AS TOTAL_VOLOME_KPIID
FROM public.test AS test
GROUP BY IMSI
order by TOTAL_VOLOME_KPIID DESC;

The execution plan is as follows:

    
         Row Adapter  (cost=10.70..10.70 rows=10 width=12)
   ->  Vector Sort  (cost=10.68..10.70 rows=10 width=12)
         Sort Key: ((trunc((((sum(l4_ul_throughput)) + (sum(l4_dw_throughput))))::numeric, 0))::numeric(20,0))
         ->  Vector WindowAgg  (cost=10.09..10.51 rows=10 width=12)
               ->  Vector Streaming (type: GATHER)  (cost=242.04..246.84 rows=240 width=12)
                     Node/s: All datanodes
                     ->  Vector Hash Aggregate  (cost=10.09..10.29 rows=10 width=12)
                           Group By Key: imsi
                           ->  CStore Scan on test  (cost=0.00..10.01 rows=10 width=12)

As we can see, both window agg and sort are performed on the CN, which is time consuming.

Optimization Analysis

Modify the statement to a subquery statement, as shown below:

   
        SELECT COUNT(1) over() AS DATACNT, IMSI_IMSI, TOTAL_VOLOME_KPIID
FROM (SELECT IMSI AS IMSI_IMSI,
CAST(TRUNC(((SUM(L4_UL_THROUGHPUT) + SUM(L4_DW_THROUGHPUT))),
0) AS DECIMAL(20)) AS TOTAL_VOLOME_KPIID
FROM public.test AS test
GROUP BY IMSI
ORDER BY TOTAL_VOLOME_KPIID DESC);

Perform sum on the trunc results of the two columns, take it as a subquery, and then perform window agg for the subquery to push down the sorting operation to DNs, as shown below:

   
        Row Adapter  (cost=10.70..10.70 rows=10 width=24)
   ->  Vector WindowAgg  (cost=10.45..10.70 rows=10 width=24)
         ->  Vector Streaming (type: GATHER)  (cost=250.83..253.83 rows=240 width=24)
               Node/s: All datanodes
               ->  Vector Sort  (cost=10.45..10.48 rows=10 width=12)
                     Sort Key: ((trunc(((sum(test.l4_ul_throughput) + sum(test.l4_dw_throughput)))::numeric, 0))::numeric(20,0))
                     ->  Vector Hash Aggregate  (cost=10.09..10.29 rows=10 width=12)
                           Group By Key: test.imsi
                           ->  CStore Scan on test  (cost=0.00..10.01 rows=10 width=12)