Re: Out of Memory - 8.2.4

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeff Amiel <becauseimjeff(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Out of Memory - 8.2.4
Date: 2007-08-30 13:27:10
Message-ID: 20070830132710.GF5872@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane escribió:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > I'm not having much luck really. I think the problem is that ANALYZE
> > stores reltuples as the number of live tuples, so if you delete a big
> > portion of a big table, then ANALYZE and then VACUUM, there's a huge
> > misestimation and extra index cleanup passes happen, which is a bad
> > thing.
>
> Yeah ... so just go with a constant estimate of say 200 deletable tuples
> per page?

How about we use a constant estimate using the average tuple width code?

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/CTMLCN8V17R4
"In fact, the basic problem with Perl 5's subroutines is that they're not
crufty enough, so the cruft leaks out into user-defined code instead, by
the Conservation of Cruft Principle." (Larry Wall, Apocalypse 6)

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