Re: Avoiding bad prepared-statement plans.

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
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 01:01:43
Message-ID: 603c8f071002271701w461a0102w6584fd81c03c17d6@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> Basically, what I really want here is some kind of keyword or other
>> syntax that I can stick into a PL/pgsql query that requests a replan
>> on every execution.
>
> 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.

...Robert

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