Re: Row level stats

From: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Row level stats
Date: 2003-03-06 16:43:40
Message-ID: 1046969020.487.23.camel@jester
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On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 11:40, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 09:16, Rod Taylor wrote:
> > Anyway, the basic proposal would be to change the on / off flags for row
> > & block level into a 'stats delay'. A large number would be off, 0
> > would have the same properties as today. Default to be determined (but
> > 1 second seems to be plenty).
>
> "A large number" seems messy. Why not "-1"? I also don't really like
> using "0" to mean "enabled", but I can't think of anything better...
>
> And the default should be to disable row-level stats, naturally.

Not if we expect pg_autovacuum to be able to work. It *needs* this
information. I really want an auto-vacuum in the backend, and figured
the first step was to fix stats so they don't have such a high cost.

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Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>

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