Is there anything for the TODO here?
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> > I'm not about to run analyze in the middle of the data generation
> > (which wouldn't work anyways since it's in a transaction).
>
> Since 7.3 or 7.4, you *can* run ANALYZE in the middle of a transaction.
> The cached-plan business is a problem, I agree, but I think it's
> orthogonal to this particular discussion (and you can always use EXECUTE
> if you have to).
>
> >> In the absence of any ANALYZE data the tuples-per-page estimate might be
> >> pretty bogus, but it couldn't be off by more than an order of magnitude or
> >> so either way.
>
> > I don't see why it couldn't. If you have a table badly in need of vacuuming
> > (or had one at the time of the last analyze) it could be off by way more than
> > an order of magnitude.
>
> Well, I was actually thinking of the physical tuples-per-page stat
> (perhaps better expressed as an average tuple size), but you are right
> that the fraction of dead tuples is also something to think about.
> We don't model that explicitly ATM but maybe we should. The original
> VACUUM-based stats code couldn't really do much with it, since VACUUM
> would leave no dead tuples behind in the first place; but separate
> ANALYZE could definitely make an estimate of the fraction of dead tuples.
>
> > Ideally I would want a guarantee that every query would *always*
> > result in the same plan. Once I've tested them and approved the plans
> > I want to know that only those approved plans will ever run, and I
> > want to be present and be able to verify new plans before they go into
> > production.
>
> > I doubt I'm going to convince anyone today,
>
> Nope, you aren't. The above seems to me to be a recipe for degradation
> of performance over time, precisely because the plans wouldn't change in
> the face of changes in the situation. I've resisted adding "planner
> hints" to the language for this reason, and I'm certainly not eager to
> offer any hard guarantees about plans not changing.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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