Re: Extremely irregular query performance

From: Mark Lewis <mark(dot)lewis(at)mir3(dot)com>
To: Jean-Philippe Côté <jean-philippe(dot)cote(at)crt(dot)umontreal(dot)ca>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Extremely irregular query performance
Date: 2006-01-11 23:50:43
Message-ID: 1137023443.30926.2.camel@archimedes
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If this is a query that will be executed more than once, you can also
avoid incurring the planning overhead multiple times by using PREPARE.

-- Mark Lewis

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 18:50 -0500, Jean-Philippe Côté wrote:
> Thanks a lot for this info, I was indeed exceeding the genetic
> optimizer's threshold. Now that it is turned off, I get
> a very stable response time of 435ms (more or less 5ms) for
> the same query. It is about three times slower than the best
> I got with the genetic optimizer on, but the overall average
> is much lower.
>
> I'll also try to play with the geqo parameters and see if things
> improve.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> J-P

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