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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Hugh Ranalli <hugh@whtc.ca>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Perplexing, regular decline in performance
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 15:07:43 -0400
Message-ID: <20190626190743.GA15026@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAhbUMPVgOyiTBDU-b9MaoixDEU3jZB4s63QrpefzGtLVbtKOw@mail.gmail.com>

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.

-- 
Álvaro Herrera                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services





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