Re: Performance problems with 9.2.15

From: Johan Fredriksson <eskil(at)kth(dot)se>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Performance problems with 9.2.15
Date: 2016-05-30 07:35:29
Message-ID: 1464593729.16712.2.camel@kth.se
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> > I am just about to upgrade from PostgreSQL 8.4.20 to 9.2.15, but I'v run
> > into some huge performance issues.
>
> The rowcount estimates from 9.2 seem greatly different from the 8.4 plan.
> Did you remember to ANALYZE all the tables after migrating? Maybe there
> were some table-specific statistics targets that you forgot to transfer
> over? In any case, the 9.2 plan looks like garbage-in-garbage-out to
> me :-( ... without estimates at least a little closer to reality, the
> planner is unlikely to do anything very sane.
>
> (BTW, I wonder why you are moving only to 9.2 and not something more
> recent.)

You put me on the right track with your conclusion that the estimates
were off the chart. The quick-and-dirty fix "DELETE FROM pg_statistic;"
solved this problem. This database now have to build up sane estimates
from scratch.

/ Eskil

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