Tomas Vondra <tomas.von...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > But what about computing the number of expected batches, but always > start executing assuming no batching? And only if we actually fill > work_mem, we start batching and use the expected number of batches?
Hmm. You would likely be doing the initial data load with a "too small" numbuckets for single-batch behavior, but if you successfully loaded all the data then you could resize the table at little penalty. So yeah, that sounds like a promising approach for cases where the initial rowcount estimate is far above reality. But I kinda thought we did this already, actually. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers