Re: Possible to improve query plan?

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Jeremy Palmer" <JPalmer(at)linz(dot)govt(dot)nz>
Cc: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "andy(at)squeakycode(dot)net" <andy(at)squeakycode(dot)net>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Possible to improve query plan?
Date: 2011-01-24 23:54:53
Message-ID: 4D3DBCED0200002500039B8C@gw.wicourts.gov
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Jeremy Palmer <JPalmer(at)linz(dot)govt(dot)nz> wrote:

> Kevin I've now clustered the table. And the performance did
> increase quite a bit.

Yeah, that's enough to notice the difference.

> My only question is how often will I need to re-cluster the table,
> because it comes at quite a cost. The setup I'm running will mean
> that 10,000 new rows will be inserted, and 2,500 rows will be
> updated on this table each day.

You're going to see performance drop off as the data fragments.
You'll need to balance the performance against maintenance
down-time. I would guess, though, that if you have a weekly
maintenance window big enough to handle the CLUSTER, it might be
worth doing it that often.

-Kevin

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