Thanks Tomas. I ran a vacuum full on the 9.6 table -- still no difference in the query plan. The shared buffers hit went up slightly to 36069.
Shira On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 1:12 PM Tomas Vondra <tomas.von...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 12:44:14PM -0800, Shira Bezalel wrote: > >Hi Michael, > > > >I appreciate your question. I ran a vacuum analyze on the 9.6 table and it > >yielded no difference. Same number of buffers were read, same query plan. > > > > VACUUM ANALYZE won't shrink the table - the number of buffers will be > exactly the same. You need to do VACUUM FULL, but be careful as that > acquires exclusive lock on the table. > > > regards > > -- > Tomas Vondra http://www.2ndQuadrant.com > PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services > -- Shira Bezalel Database Administrator & Desktop Support Manager San Francisco Estuary Institute www.sfei.org Ph: 510-746-7304