On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, this is worthless on large active databases. The logging > > overhead alone starts to affect performance. > > But somehow, all that stuff with cached plans is free?
Of course not. The first time you execute a query, it is cached... so you pay the same penalty you do in PG, but in many cases, only once. In regards to plan re-use, sure there's going to be some contention on the hash buckets... but that can be mitigated in a lot of ways. In addition to that, Oracle collects over two thousand other statistics in real-time... yet somehow Oracle is quite fast. So, I would say that the usual complaint about collecting stats should be more an issue of proper implementation than a complaint about the act of collection itself. -- Jonah H. Harris, Sr. Software Architect | phone: 732.331.1324 EnterpriseDB Corporation | fax: 732.331.1301 499 Thornall Street, 2nd Floor | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edison, NJ 08837 | http://www.enterprisedb.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers