Re: [HACKERS] Heh, the disappearing problem! - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Maarten Boekhold
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Heh, the disappearing problem!
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Msg-id Pine.SUN.3.91.980309222633.22664C-100000@dutepp2.et.tudelft.nl
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Heh, the disappearing problem!  (Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Heh, the disappearing problem!  (Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>)
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> > Uh, maybe a stupid question, but did you do a 'vacuum'?
>
> Uh, yeah.  Several of them, thinking that perhaps the indices were out of
> date or otherwise damaged.  Then, after some period of time where queries
> and updates were being put against the table, it started working properly (!)
>
> I have *absolutely* no idea what could have changed - I made no alterations,
> didn't shut the server down, nothing - between the time that it was last
> returning the wrong "explain" output and when it started returning the
> correct output.

Maybe the tables grew so that the optimizer decided now was to time where
using indices would be faster? Just trying to make some sense out of this...

Maarten

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