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Type: New Feature
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Priority: Major - P3
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Affects Version/s: None
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Component/s: None
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Query Optimization
I have seen a number of customer queries use $addToSet in scenarios that it is not necessary for and is in fact a bad choice due to it's materialization of a giant array. For example:
[ { "$match": { "myField.target": "TARGET" } }, { "$group": { "_id": {}, "value": { "$addToSet": "$metadata.something_id" } } }, { "$project": { "_id": 0, "value": { "$size": "$value" } } } ]
This query only needs the size of the resulting "value" array, so could be re-written like so:
[ { "$match": { "metadata.target": "cloud" } }, { "$group": { "_id": "$metadata.something_id" } }, { "$group": { "_id": {}, value: {$sum: 1} } }, { "$project": { "_id": 0 } } ]
- related to
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SERVER-66707 Add ability to nest $group operations
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