On 2013-12-10 19:23:37 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote: > On 6 December 2013 09:21, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > > On 2013-12-05 17:52:34 -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > >> Has anyone ever thought about opportunistic ANALYZE piggy-backing on > >> other full-table scans? That doesn't really help Greg, because his > >> complaint is mostly that a fresh ANALYZE is too expensive, but it > >> could be an interesting, albeit risky approach. > > > > What I've been thinking of is > > > > a) making it piggy back on scans vacuum is doing instead of doing > > separate ones all the time (if possible, analyze needs to be more > > frequent). Currently with quite some likelihood the cache will be gone > > again when revisiting. > > > b) make analyze incremental. In lots of bigger tables most of the table > > is static - and we actually *do* know that, thanks to the vm. So keep a > > rawer form of what ends in the catalogs around somewhere, chunked by the > > region of the table the statistic is from. Everytime a part of the table > > changes, re-sample only that part. Then recompute the aggregate. > > Piggy-backing sounds like a bad thing. If I run a query, I don't want > to be given some extra task thanks! Especially if we might need to run > data type code I'm not authroised to run, or to sample data I may not > be authorised to see. The only way that could work is to kick off an > autovacuum worker to run the ANALYZE as a separate process and then > use synchronous scan behaviour to derive benefit indirectly.
I was suggesting to piggyback on VACUUM, not user queries. The latter suggestion was somebody else. In combination with incremental or chunk-wise building of statistics, doing more frequent partial vacuums which re-compute the changing part of the stats would be great. All those blocks have to be read anyway, and we should be more agressive about vacuuming anyway. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers