Re: row-level stats and last analyze time

From: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
To: pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: row-level stats and last analyze time
Date: 2007-04-25 02:07:10
Message-ID: 200704242207.11093.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
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On Tuesday 24 April 2007 17:38, Neil Conway wrote:
> [ CC'ing -hackers ]
>
> On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 16:10 +0200, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> > This patch adds a sentence on monitoring.sgml explaining that
> > stats_row_level needs to be enabled if user wants to get last
> > vacuum/analyze execution time.
>
> This behavior was introduced in r1.120 of postmaster/pgstat.c:
>
> Modify pgstats code to reduce performance penalties from
> oversized stats data files: avoid creating stats
> hashtable entries for tables that aren't being touched
> except by vacuum/analyze [...]
>
> which included other modifications to reduce the pgstat I/O volume in
> 8.1. I don't think this particular change was wise: the reduction in
> pgstat volume is pretty marginal, and it is counter-intuitive for
> stats_row_level to effect whether the last ANALYZE / VACUUM is recorded.
> (Plus, the optimization is not even enabled with the default
> postgresql.conf settings.)
>

+1

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Robert Treat
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