Re: Avoiding out of date statistics / planner

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Michael Lewis <mlewis(at)entrata(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tim Kane <tim(dot)kane(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Avoiding out of date statistics / planner
Date: 2020-02-12 20:32:45
Message-ID: 20200212203245.yuilq66zbxu3iv7d@development
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 10:23:22AM -0700, Michael Lewis wrote:
>It may also be worth noting that it is possible to make autovacuum/analyze
>more aggressive, perhaps only on the tables that see large changes in data
>that might result in a statistics issue. If you could share a query,
>explain analyze output, and pseudo code or at least description of what
>sort of bulk operations are being done, then more insight could be offered.

Another thing you can do is deploy auto_explain, and log explain plan
for long-runnning queries. That won't fix the root cause, but it will
help you with confirming the root cause - you'll see the query plan,
which should give you enough context.

regards

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