Re: postmaster consuming /lots/ of memory with hash aggregate. why?

2010/11/12 Jon Nelson <jnelson+pgsql@jamponi.net>:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2010/11/12 Jon Nelson <jnelson+pgsql@jamponi.net>:
>>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> look on EXPLAIN ANALYZE command. Probably your statistic are out, and
>>>> then planner can be confused. EXPLAIN ANALYZE statement show it.
>>>
>>> As I noted earlier, I did set statistics to 1000 an re-ran vacuum
>>> analyze and the plan did not change.
>>
>> this change can do nothing. this is default in config. did you use
>> ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN SET STATISTIC = ... ? and ANALYZE
>
> No. To be clear: are you saying that changing the value for
> default_statistics_target, restarting postgresql, and re-running
> VACUUM ANALYZE does *not* change the statistics for columns
> created/populated *prior* to the sequence of operations, and that one
> /must/ use ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN SET STATISTICS ... and re-ANALYZE?
>

yes.

but I was wrong. Documentation is correct. Problem is elsewhere.

> That does not jive with the documentation, which appears to suggest
> that setting a new default_statistics_target, restarting postgresql,
> and then re-ANALYZE'ing a table should be sufficient (provided the
> columns have not had a statistics target explicitly set).
>

>>> What other diagnostics can I provide? This still doesn't answer the
>>> 40000 row question, though. It seems absurd to me that the planner
>>> would give up and just use 40000 rows (0.02 percent of the actual
>>> result).
>>>
>>
>> there can be some not well supported operation, then planner use a
>> some % from rows without statistic based estimation
>
> The strange thing is that the value 40000 keeps popping up in totally
> diffferent contexts, with different tables, databases, etc... I tried
> digging through the code and the only thing I found was that numGroups
> was being set to 40000 but I couldn't see where.
>


if I remember well, you can set a number of group by ALTER TABLE ALTER
COLUMN SET n_distinct = ..

maybe you use it.

Regards

Pavel Stehule

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/sql-altertable.html




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