Re: does max_connections affect the query planner

2019-09-17 Thread Jeff Janes
On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 4:41 AM Bob Jolliffe wrote: > Hi > > We are trying to diagnose why postgres might be making poor decisions > regarding query plans. One theory is that it does not assume it has > the memory suggested in effective_cache_size. > We do know that max_connections is set quit

Re: does max_connections affect the query planner

2019-09-17 Thread Bob Jolliffe
Thanks Tom. Will check that. On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 at 14:13, Tom Lane wrote: > > Bob Jolliffe writes: > > We do know that max_connections is set quite high (600) when we don't > > really expect more than 100. I wonder does the planner take > > max_connections x work_mem into account when conside

Re: does max_connections affect the query planner

2019-09-17 Thread Tom Lane
Bob Jolliffe writes: > We do know that max_connections is set quite high (600) when we don't > really expect more than 100. I wonder does the planner take > max_connections x work_mem into account when considering the memory it > has potentially available? No. There have been discussions to the

does max_connections affect the query planner

2019-09-17 Thread Bob Jolliffe
Hi We are trying to diagnose why postgres might be making poor decisions regarding query plans. One theory is that it does not assume it has the memory suggested in effective_cache_size. We do know that max_connections is set quite high (600) when we don't really expect more than 100. I wonder