Re: Avoiding bad prepared-statement plans.

2010/2/11 Bart Samwel <bart(at)samwel(dot)tk>:
> Hi Robert,
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 17:43, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv(at)xs4all(dot)nl> wrote:
>> > = Projected-cost threshold =
>> >
>> > If a prepared statement takes parameters, and the generic plan has a
>> > high
>> > projected cost, re-plan each EXECUTE individually with all its parameter
>> > values bound.  It may or may not help, but unless the planner is vastly
>> > over-pessimistic, re-planning isn't going to dominate execution time for
>> > these cases anyway.
>>
>> How high is high?
>
> Perhaps this could be based on a (configurable?) ratio of observed planning
> time and projected execution time. I mean, if planning it the first time
> took 30 ms and projected execution time is 1 ms, then by all means NEVER
> re-plan. But if planning the first time took 1 ms and resulted in a
> projected execution time of 50 ms, then it's relatively cheap to re-plan
> every time (cost increase per execution is 1/50 = 2%), and the potential
> gains are much greater (taking a chunk out of 50 ms adds up quickly).

It could be a good idea. I don't belive to sophisticate methods. There
can be a very simply solution. The could be a "limit" for price. More
expensive queries can be replaned every time when the price will be
over limit.

Regards

Pavel Stehule
>
> Cheers,
> Bart
>