| From: | Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik(at)garret(dot)ru> | 
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| To: | PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | Index-only scan and random_page_cost | 
| Date: | 2023-02-03 17:55:37 | 
| Message-ID: | 97128c23-dca1-68ae-1961-e15e9acbdc81@garret.ru | 
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Hi hackers,
Right now cost of index-only scan is using `random_page_cost`.
Certainly for point selects we really have random access pattern, but 
queries like "select count(*) from hits"  access pattern is more or less 
sequential:
we are iterating through subsequent leaf B-Tree pages.  As far as 
default value of `random_page_cost`  is 4 times larger than `seq_page_cost`
it may force Postgres optimizer to choose sequential scan, while 
index-only scan is usually much faster in this case.
Can we do something here to provide more accurate cost estimation?
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