Re: Persistent Plan Cache - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: Persistent Plan Cache
Date
Msg-id 4AAD4ABA.9060903@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: Persistent Plan Cache  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Joshua Rubin <jrubin@esoft.com> writes:
>> We have a very large, partitioned, table that we often need to query
>> from new connections, but frequently with similar queries. We have
>> constraint exclusion on to take advantage of the partitioning. This also
>> makes query planning more expensive. As a result, the CPU is fully
>> loaded, all the time, preparing queries, many of which have been
>> prepared, identically, by other connections.
>
> If you're depending on constraint exclusion, it's hard to see how plan
> caching could help you at all.  The generated plan needs to vary
> depending on the actual WHERE-clause parameters.

That's what the OP really should've complained about. If we addressed
that, so that a generic plan was created that determines which child
tables can be excluded at run time, there would be no need for the
persistent plan cache.

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  Heikki Linnakangas
  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com

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