Re: Avoiding bad prepared-statement plans.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Mark Mielke <mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc>, Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Bart Samwel <bart(at)samwel(dot)tk>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Avoiding bad prepared-statement plans.
Date: 2010-02-28 04:22:00
Message-ID: 25921.1267330920@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be better if it just did the right thing automatically?
>>
>> The sort of heuristic I'm envisioning would essentially do "replan every
>> time" for some number of executions, and give up only if it noticed that
>> it wasn't getting anything better than the generic plan. So you'd have
>> a fixed maximum overhead per session when the custom plan was useless,
>> and the Right Thing when it wasn't.

> Which is likely useless for my use case.

[ shrug... ] You'd better explain exactly why, if you want me to take
that objection seriously.

regards, tom lane

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