Re: [HACKERS] mdnblocks is an amazing time sink in huge relations - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Vadim Mikheev
Subject Re: [HACKERS] mdnblocks is an amazing time sink in huge relations
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Msg-id 380D3E8B.DA5966C6@krs.ru
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] mdnblocks is an amazing time sink in huge relations  (Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > I agreed that there is no way to get accurate estimation for
> > # of rows to be seen by a query...
> > Well, let's keep up-to-date # of rows present in relation:
> > in any case a query will have to read them and this is what
> > we need to estimate cost of simple scans, as for costs of
> > joins - now way, currently(?) -:(
> >
> > But please remember that there is another SCC goal -
> > faster catalog access...
> 
> I want to index access more cache entries on cache miss for 7.0.

Good. But in any case we'll gain faster access from _shared_ cache.

Vadim


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