pgr_maxFlowMinCost_Cost - Experimental

pgr_maxFlowMinCost_Cost — Calculates the minimum total cost of the maximum flow on a graph

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Warning

Possible server crash

• These functions might create a server crash

Warning

Experimental functions

• They are not officially of the current release.

• They likely will not be officially be part of the next release:

  • The functions might not make use of ANY-INTEGER and ANY-NUMERICAL

  • Name might change.

  • Signature might change.

  • Functionality might change.

  • pgTap tests might be missing.

  • Might need c/c++ coding.

  • May lack documentation.

  • Documentation if any might need to be rewritten.

  • Documentation examples might need to be automatically generated.

  • Might need a lot of feedback from the comunity.

  • Might depend on a proposed function of pgRouting

  • Might depend on a deprecated function of pgRouting

Availability

• Version 3.2.0

  • New experimental function:

    • pgr_maxFlowMinCost_Cost (Combinations)

• Version 3.0.0

  • New experimental function

Description

The main characteristics are:

• The graph is directed.

• Process is done only on edges with positive capacities.

• When the maximum flow is 0 then there is no flow and EMPTY SET is returned.

  • There is no flow when source has the same vaule as target.

• Any duplicated values in source or target are ignored.

• Calculates the flow/residual capacity for each edge. In the output

  • Edges with zero flow are omitted.

• Creates

  • a super source and edges from it to all the sources,

  • a super target and edges from it to all the targetss.

• The maximum flow through the graph is guaranteed to be the value returned by pgr_maxFlow when executed with the same parameters and can be calculated:

  • By aggregation of the outgoing flow from the sources

  • By aggregation of the incoming flow to the targets

The main characteristics are:

• The graph is directed.

• The cost value of all input edges must be nonnegative.

• When the maximum flow is 0 then there is no flow and 0 is returned.

  • There is no flow when source has the same vaule as target.

• Any duplicated values in source or target are ignored.

• Uses pgr_maxFlowMinCost - Experimental.

• Running time: \(O(U * (E + V * logV))\)

  • where \(U\) is the value of the max flow.

  • \(U\) is upper bound on number of iterations. In many real world cases number of iterations is much smaller than \(U\).

Signatures

Summary

pgr_maxFlowMinCost_Cost(Edges SQL, start vid, end vid)

pgr_maxFlowMinCost_Cost(Edges SQL, start vid, end vids)

pgr_maxFlowMinCost_Cost(Edges SQL, start vids, end vid)

pgr_maxFlowMinCost_Cost(Edges SQL, start vids, end vids)

pgr_maxFlowMinCost_Cost(Edges SQL, Combinations SQL)

RETURNS FLOAT

One to One

pgr_maxFlowMinCost_Cost(Edges SQL, start vid, end vid)

RETURNS FLOAT

Example:

From vertex \(11\) to vertex \(12\)

SELECT * FROM pgr_maxFlowMinCost_Cost(
  'SELECT id, source, target, capacity, reverse_capacity, cost, reverse_cost
  FROM edges',
  11, 12);
 pgr_maxflowmincost_cost
-------------------------
                     430
(1 row)

One to Many

pgr_maxFlowMinCost_Cost(Edges SQL, start vid, end vids)

RETURNS FLOAT

Example:

From vertex \(11\) to vertices \(\{5, 10, 12\}\)

SELECT * FROM pgr_maxFlowMinCost_Cost(
  'SELECT id, source, target, capacity, reverse_capacity, cost, reverse_cost
  FROM edges',
  ARRAY[11, 3, 17], 12);
 pgr_maxflowmincost_cost
-------------------------
                     430
(1 row)

Many to One

pgr_maxFlowMinCost_Cost(Edges SQL, start vids, end vid)

RETURNS FLOAT

Example:

From vertices \(\{11, 3, 17\}\) to vertex \(12\)

SELECT * FROM pgr_maxFlowMinCost_Cost(
  'SELECT id, source, target, capacity, reverse_capacity, cost, reverse_cost
  FROM edges',
  11, ARRAY[5, 10, 12]);
 pgr_maxflowmincost_cost
-------------------------
                     760
(1 row)

Many to Many

pgr_maxFlowMinCost_Cost(Edges SQL, start vids, end vids)

RETURNS FLOAT

Example:

From vertices \(\{11, 3, 17\}\) to vertices \(\{5, 10, 12\}\)

SELECT * FROM pgr_maxFlowMinCost_Cost(
  'SELECT id, source, target, capacity, reverse_capacity, cost, reverse_cost
  FROM edges',
  ARRAY[11, 3, 17], ARRAY[5, 10, 12]);
 pgr_maxflowmincost_cost
-------------------------
                     820
(1 row)

Combinations

pgr_maxFlowMinCost_Cost(Edges SQL, Combinations SQL)

RETURNS FLOAT

Example:

Using a combinations table, equivalent to calculating result from vertices \(\{5, 6\}\) to vertices \(\{10, 15, 14\}\).

The combinations table:

SELECT source, target FROM combinations
WHERE target NOT IN (5, 6);
 source | target
--------+--------
      5 |     10
      6 |     15
      6 |     14
(3 rows)

The query:

SELECT * FROM pgr_maxFlowMinCost_Cost(
  'SELECT id, source, target, capacity, reverse_capacity, cost, reverse_cost
  FROM edges',
  'SELECT * FROM combinations WHERE target NOT IN (5, 6)');
 pgr_maxflowmincost_cost
-------------------------
                     320
(1 row)

Parameters

Column	Type	Description
Edges SQL	TEXT	Edges SQL as described below
Combinations SQL	TEXT	Combinations SQL as described below
start vid	BIGINT	Identifier of the starting vertex of the path.
start vids	ARRAY[BIGINT]	Array of identifiers of starting vertices.
end vid	BIGINT	Identifier of the ending vertex of the path.
end vids	ARRAY[BIGINT]	Array of identifiers of ending vertices.

Inner Queries

Edges SQL

Column	Type	Default	Description
id	ANY-INTEGER		Identifier of the edge.
source	ANY-INTEGER		Identifier of the first end point vertex of the edge.
target	ANY-INTEGER		Identifier of the second end point vertex of the edge.
capacity	ANY-INTEGER		Capacity of the edge (source, target) When negative: edge (target, source) does not exist, therefore it’s not part of the graph.
reverse_capacity	ANY-INTEGER	-1	Capacity of the edge (target, source) When negative: edge (target, source) does not exist, therefore it’s not part of the graph.
cost	ANY-NUMERICAL		Weight of the edge (source, target) if it exist
reverse_cost	ANY-NUMERICAL	\(-1\)	Weight of the edge (target, source) if it exist

Where:

ANY-INTEGER:

SMALLINT, INTEGER, BIGINT

ANY-NUMERICAL:

SMALLINT, INTEGER, BIGINT, REAL, FLOAT

Combinations SQL

Parameter	Type	Description
source	ANY-INTEGER	Identifier of the departure vertex.
target	ANY-INTEGER	Identifier of the arrival vertex.

Where:

ANY-INTEGER:

SMALLINT, INTEGER, BIGINT

Return columns

Type	Description
FLOAT	Minimum Cost Maximum Flow possible from the source(s) to the target(s)

Additional Examples

Example:

Manually assigned vertex combinations.

SELECT * FROM pgr_maxFlowMinCost_Cost(
  'SELECT id, source, target, capacity, reverse_capacity, cost, reverse_cost
  FROM edges',
  'SELECT * FROM (VALUES (5, 10), (6, 15), (6, 14)) AS t(source, target)');
 pgr_maxflowmincost_cost
-------------------------
                     320
(1 row)

See Also

• Flow - Family of functions

• https://www.boost.org/libs/graph/doc/successive_shortest_path_nonnegative_weights.html

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