Re: Sub-optimal plan chosen - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Sub-optimal plan chosen
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Msg-id 603c8f070909100957l65a0f278o152cf22a685f8f9e@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Sub-optimal plan chosen  (tv@fuzzy.cz)
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2009/9/10  <tv@fuzzy.cz>:
>> Playing around with seq_page_cost (1) and random_page_cost (1), I can get
>> the correct index selected. Applying those same settings to our production
>> server does not produce the optimal plan, though.
>
> I doubt setting seq_page_cost and random_page_cost to the same value is
> reasonable - random access is almost always more expensive than sequential
> access.

If the data figures to be read from the OS cache, it's very
reasonable, and the right value is somewhere in the 0.05 - 0.10 range.

...Robert

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