Re: autovacuum and temp tables support

On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Robert Haas wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>> Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>>
>>> our client complained about slow query, which involves temporary tables.
>>> Analyzing them manually solved the problem. I don't remember
>>> arguments against temporary tables support by autovacuum. I'd
>>> appreciate any
>>> pointers.
>>
>> Autovacuum can't process temp tables; they could reside in a backend's
>> private temp buffers (local memory, not shared).
>
> On general thought I've had is that it would be nice if the first
> attempt to SELECT against a table with no statistics would trigger an
> automatic ANALYZE by the backend on which the query was executed.
> It's pretty common to populate a table using INSERT, or CTAS, or COPY
> and then try to immediately run a query against it, and I've often
> found that it's necessary to insert manual analyze statements in there
> to get decent query plans.

Oracle does this. So, is't worth to add support (configurable, like
Oracle's optimizer_dynamic_sampling) ?

    Regards,        Oleg
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