Re: Simple postgresql.conf wizard

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On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 05:15:04PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> [...]  Maybe
> default_statistics_target should vary with the table size?  Something
> like, 0.1% of the rows to a maximum of 100...  and then 0.01% of the
> rows after that to some higher maximum.... but always a minimum of at
> least 10.  I'm guessing that people with really big tables are less
> likely to mind longer planning times and more likely to benefit from
> finding better plans...

What was the running time of the planner? Quadratic in statistics_target?
Take the square root of table size. Exponential? The logarithm. Or
something like that.

My 1.75 cent
- -- tomás
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