Re: benchmarking the query planner

From: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: "Nathan Boley" <npboley(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Vladimir Sitnikov" <sitnikov(dot)vladimir(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Greg Smith" <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: benchmarking the query planner
Date: 2008-12-12 16:35:57
Message-ID: 603c8f070812120835x7a6b7588icdf6e876239a80d1@mail.gmail.com
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> Which raises the issue, if we could get better statistics by passing
> the whole table, why not do that when VACUUM ANALYZE is run?

I think the reason is "because the next autovacuum would undo it".

Perhaps a table-level option to scan the whole table instead of
estimating would be appropriate?
.
...Robert

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