Re: ANALYZE sampling is too good

From: Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ANALYZE sampling is too good
Date: 2013-12-11 19:39:31
Message-ID: 52A8BF73.3050808@archidevsys.co.nz
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On 12/12/13 08:31, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz> wrote:
>
>> For example, assume 1000 rows of 200 bytes and 1000 rows of 20 bytes,
>> using 400 byte pages. In the pathologically worst case, assuming
>> maximum packing density and no page has both types: the large rows would
>> occupy 500 pages and the smaller rows 50 pages. So if one selected 11
>> pages at random, you get about 10 pages of large rows and about one for
>> small rows!
> With 10 * 2 = 20 large rows, and 1 * 20 = 20 small rows.
>
> --
> Kevin Grittner
> EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
Sorry, I've simply come up with well argued nonsense!

Kevin, you're dead right.

Cheers,
Gavin

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