Re: Autovacuum and Autoanalyze

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Autovacuum and Autoanalyze
Date: 2008-09-16 14:47:07
Message-ID: 373.1221576427@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> This seems like the wrong solution. There is a general problem that
> bulk data loads on an empty table tend to result in horrible query
> plans,

Please provide some specifics. It's been a very long time since the
planner was completely unaware of the size of such a table. Lack of
stats is certainly a handicap, but I'm not convinced it should result
in horrible plans. Maybe a more appropriate answer to this type of
issue is to tweak some of the default selectivity numbers.

> And maybe also do the same thing if the table has grown significantly
> (not sure what the threshold should be) since the last ANALYZE.

Autovacuum already does this type of thing.

regards, tom lane

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