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From: Jim Nasby <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Regression from 9.4-9.6
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 16:07:04 -0500
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On 10/8/17 3:37 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jim Nasby <[email protected]> writes:
>> On 10/8/17 2:34 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Why has this indexscan's cost estimate changed so much?
> 
>> Great question... the only thing that sticks out is the coalesce(). Let
>> me see if an analyze with a higher stats target changes anything. FWIW,
>> the 9.6 database is copied from the 9.4 one once a week and then
>> pg_upgraded. I'm pretty sure an ANALYZE is part of that process.
> 
> Hm, now that I see the SubPlan in there, I wonder whether 9.6 is
> accounting more conservatively for the cost of the subplan.  It
> probably is assuming that the subplan gets run for each row fetched
> from the index, although the loops and rows-removed counts show
> that the previous filter conditions reject 99% of the fetched rows.
> 
> But that code looks the same in 9.4, so I don't understand why
> the 9.4 estimate isn't equally large ...

Besides the analyze issue, the other part of this is

[email protected]/20106> select 
pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size('bdata_forks'));
  pg_size_pretty
----------------
  106 GB
(1 row)

[email protected]/20106> select relpages::bigint*8192/reltuples from 
pg_class where relname='bdata_forks';
      ?column?
------------------
  185.559397863791
(1 row)

With an effective_cache_size of 200GB that's not really helping things. 
But it's also another example of the planner's reluctance towards index 
scans.
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Jim C. Nasby, Data Architect                       [email protected]
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