Ragnar Hafstaš wrote:
it is not rational to have random_page_cost < 1.
I agree, in theory one should never *need* to set it < 1. However in
cases when the optimizers understanding of things is a little off,
compensation may be required to achieve better plans (e.g. encouraging
index scans on data with funny distributions or collelations).
if you see improvement with such a setting, it is as likely that
something else is wrong, such as higher statistic targets needed,
or a much too low effective_cache setting.
Altho this is good advice, it is not always sufficient. For instance I
have my effective_cache_size=20000. Now the machine has 512Mb ram and
right now cache+buf+free is about 100M, and shared_buffers=2000. So in
fact I probably have it a bit high :-).
Increasing stats target will either make the situation better or worse -
a better sample of data is obtained for analysis, but this is not
*guaranteed* to lead to a faster execution plan, even if in
general/usually it does.
cheers
Mark
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