Re: Query Plans on Slaves - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tatsuo Ishii
Subject Re: Query Plans on Slaves
Date
Msg-id 20141110.115002.949759977494642271.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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In response to Query Plans on Slaves  (Anthony Presley <anthony@resolution.com>)
Responses Re: Query Plans on Slaves  (Anthony Presley <anthony@resolution.com>)
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> Hi all!
>
> We're working on our architecture for our next set of systems, and we
> normally have a simple master/slave with wal shipping and hot_standby set
> up, with pgpool sitting in front of both to do load balancing.
>
> However, one piece I'm very confused about is the query plans on the slave
> server.
>
> Let's pretend we have a master server with:
>   (2) E5-2660 CPU's
>   (4) S3700 400GB SSD's
>   256GB of RAM
>
> And multiple slave servers that looks like:
>   (1) E3-1290 CPU's
>   (2) Intel 520 SSD's
>   32GB of RAM
>
> There's a significant difference between the master and slaves.

Can you show us the explain analyze result on both master and slave?

> Does the ANALYZE command run on each system, and work differently on each
> system, or would the slave servers use the query plans from the master
> machine?

ANALYZE can only be executed on master. Slave creates its own
plan. However since statistics should be same as master, I guess if
you get different plan, then postgresql.conf maybe different among
master and slave.

Best regards,
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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