Re: Spotting planner errors (was Re: Query planner is using

Tom Lane wrote:
> Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> writes:
>> Tom - does the planner/executor know it's got row estimates wrong? That
>> is, if I'm not running an EXPLAIN ANALYSE is there a point at which we
>> could log "planner estimate for X out by factor of Y"?
>
> Not at the moment, but you could certainly imagine changing the executor
> to count rows even without EXPLAIN ANALYZE, and then complain during
> plan shutdown.
>
> Not sure how helpful that would be; there would be a lot of noise from
> common cases such as executing underneath a LIMIT node.

Hmm - thinking about it you'd probably want to record it similarly to
stats too. It's the fact that the planner *repeatedly* gets an estimate
wrong that's of interest.

Would it be prohibitive to total actions taken - to act as raw data for
random_page_cost / cpu_xxx_cost? If you could get a ratio of estimated
vs actual time vs the various page-fetches/index-fetches etc. we could
actually plug some meaningful numbers in.

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd