Re: 'Interesting' prepared statement slowdown on large table join

On 05/11/2011 06:08 AM, Prodan, Andrei wrote:

> Index Scan using attr_name_value on big_table (cost=0.00..22.85
> rows=4 width=7) (actual time=0.176..757.646 rows=914786 loops=1)

Holy inaccurate statistics, Batman!

Try increasing your statistics target for attr_name and attr_value in
your big table. I know you said you set it to 300 on party_id, but what
happened here is that the optimizer thought this particular name/value
combo in your big table would return less rows, and it was horribly,
horribly wrong.

You might think about bumping up your default_statistics_target anyway
to prevent problems like this in general. But definitely increase it on
those two columns and reanalyze. My guess is that your big_table is big
enough that each analyze gets a different random sample of the various
attr_name and attr_value combinations, so occasionally it'll get too few
and start badly skewing query plans.

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