Re: How to remove a table statistics ?

Hello,
Some more tests have shown that removing the statistics just move the performance issue to other places.
The main issue here is a bad design, so I'd better focus on this than losing too much time with the current situation.
But this raises an interesting question on how/where does Postgres store statistics on functional indexes.
in pg_statistics there are information on the column content, but I couldn't find stats on the function result which is fully computed only during the index creation.
I guess that the planner would need to know at least the function cost to weight the benefit of such an index.
In my case I would set the function cost to 200 ...

I have also tried to reduce random_page_cost to "2", and it seems to help in a few cases.

(anonymized)

explain analyze
SELECT min(msoffset) as t, coalesce(pipelinecall_id,-2) as pid
from aserrorlist_20120125 l
WHERE 1 = 1
AND msoffset >= 1327503000000
AND my_func('foo',20120125,l.id, l.header_9_10_id, l.categories_id, l.firstline_id) @@ to_aserrcfg_search_tsq($KUKU$lexeme_1 ! lexeme_2$KUKU$)
group by ridcount,pipelinecall_id,coalesce(toplevelrid,msoffset::varchar);

without stats: http://explain.depesz.com/s/qPg
with stats: http://explain.depesz.com/s/88q

aserr_20120125_tvi: GIN Index on my_func(.,.,.,.,.,.)

best regards,

Marc Mamin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-performance-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-performance-
> owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Josh Berkus
> Sent: Dienstag, 31. Januar 2012 19:44
> To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [PERFORM] How to remove a table statistics ?
>
> On 1/31/12 3:50 AM, Marc Mamin wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a weird table, upon with the queries are much faster when no
> > statics were collected.
> >
> > Is there a way to delete statistics information for a table ?
> > I've tried ALTER.. set STATISTICS 0 and then run ANALYZE, but it
> seems
> > that old statistics are kept this way.
> > Can I delete entries directly in pg_statistic ?
> > (Postgresql 9.1)
>
> You can, but it won't do any good; autovaccum will replace them.
>
> It would be better to fix the actual query plan issue. If you can,
> post
> the query plans with and without statistics (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, please)
> here.
>
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