Re: Automatic function replanning

> Lukas Smith <mls@pooteeweet.org> writes:
>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> * Flush cached query plans when the dependent objects change,
>>> when the cardinality of parameters changes dramatically, or
>>> when new ANALYZE statistics are available
>
>> Wouldn't it also make sense to flush a cached query plan when after 
>> execution it is determined that one or more assumptions that the cached 
>> query plan was based on was found to be off?
>
> Not unless you do something that would cause the planner to make
> different choices next time.  (Such as changing the ANALYZE statistics,
> perhaps.)  The TODO item is OK as stated, it's just talking about
> mechanism and not the things that might trigger the mechanism.

A mechanism might be to bump up the stats stored for pg_autovacuum,
which would encourage a table to be re-ANALYZEd.

That may not immediately change ANALYZE statistics, but it's
something...

Even if there is NO feedback mechanism on statistics, if we know the
plan was pretty bad, it is surely at least *a* feedback to invalidate
the plan.
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