Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Definition of random_page_cost seems to invert correlation of that setting and seq_page_cost

My bad. Misunderstood this when I read it. It's completely correct the way it is.

Thanks,
Nacho
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From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Definition of random_page_cost seems to invert correlation of that setting and seq_page_cost

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On Mon, 2024-03-11 at 12:30 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> While reading the following section in the documentation
> https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.org%2Fdocs%2Fcurrent%2Fruntime-config-query.html%23GUC-RANDOM-PAGE-COST&data=05%7C02%7Cignacio.alonso%40microsoft.com%7Cd97db203bd0749e7fb6008dc435e6cfc%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C638459320060756532%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=oBLi%2FJJPxpSmzEYmy8adBFZjSHJWq%2F6OIP%2BEvR25Vsk%3D&reserved=0<https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-query.html#GUC-RANDOM-PAGE-COST>
> I found something which looks incorrect to me.
>
> If I understand this setting correctly, the following sentence:
>
> "Reducing this value relative to seq_page_cost will cause the system to
> prefer index scans; raising it will make index scans look relatively more
> expensive."
>
> should rather be:
>
> "Raising this value relative to seq_page_cost will cause the system to
> prefer index scans; reducing it will make index scans look relatively more
> expensive."

The documentation is correct. If the cost of a random I/O operation is
higher, index scans look more expensive, because they perform random I/O.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe