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1 /*
2  * hyperloglog.h
3  *
4  * A simple HyperLogLog cardinality estimator implementation
5  *
6  * Portions Copyright (c) 2014-2024, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
7  *
8  * Based on Hideaki Ohno's C++ implementation. The copyright terms of Ohno's
9  * original version (the MIT license) follow.
10  *
11  * src/include/lib/hyperloglog.h
12  */
13 
14 /*
15  * Copyright (c) 2013 Hideaki Ohno <hide.o.j55{at}gmail.com>
16  *
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35 
36 #ifndef HYPERLOGLOG_H
37 #define HYPERLOGLOG_H
38 
39 /*
40  * HyperLogLog is an approximate technique for computing the number of distinct
41  * entries in a set. Importantly, it does this by using a fixed amount of
42  * memory. See the 2007 paper "HyperLogLog: the analysis of a near-optimal
43  * cardinality estimation algorithm" for more.
44  *
45  * hyperLogLogState
46  *
47  * registerWidth register width, in bits ("k")
48  * nRegisters number of registers
49  * alphaMM alpha * m ^ 2 (see initHyperLogLog())
50  * hashesArr array of hashes
51  * arrSize size of hashesArr
52  */
53 typedef struct hyperLogLogState
54 {
57  double alphaMM;
61 
62 extern void initHyperLogLog(hyperLogLogState *cState, uint8 bwidth);
63 extern void initHyperLogLogError(hyperLogLogState *cState, double error);
64 extern void addHyperLogLog(hyperLogLogState *cState, uint32 hash);
65 extern double estimateHyperLogLog(hyperLogLogState *cState);
66 extern void freeHyperLogLog(hyperLogLogState *cState);
67 
68 #endif /* HYPERLOGLOG_H */
unsigned int uint32
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unsigned char uint8
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size_t Size
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void initHyperLogLog(hyperLogLogState *cState, uint8 bwidth)
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struct hyperLogLogState hyperLogLogState
void initHyperLogLogError(hyperLogLogState *cState, double error)
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double estimateHyperLogLog(hyperLogLogState *cState)
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void addHyperLogLog(hyperLogLogState *cState, uint32 hash)
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void freeHyperLogLog(hyperLogLogState *cState)
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static unsigned hash(unsigned *uv, int n)
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static void error(void)
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uint8 * hashesArr
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