Re: Perplexing, regular decline in performance - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Perplexing, regular decline in performance
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Msg-id 20190626190743.GA15026@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: Perplexing, regular decline in performance  (Hugh Ranalli <hugh@whtc.ca>)
Responses Re: Perplexing, regular decline in performance
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On 2019-Jun-26, Hugh Ranalli wrote:

> From my research in preparing for the upgrade, I understood transparent
> huge pages were a good thing, and should be enabled. Is this not correct?

It is not.

> Wouldn't the plan be the same at both
> the start of the week (when the problematic table is essentially empty) and
> at the end (when it is much larger)?

Not necessarily.  Though, if a plan change was the culprit you would
probably see a sudden change in performance characteristics rather than
gradual.  Worth making sure, anyway.

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