Re: [GENERAL] Problem with query plan

2004-10-23 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Tom Lane wrote: Cott Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Fiddling with the above values, only setting sort_mem absurdly large easily causes NAN. Ah. I see an overflow case for sort_mem exceeding 1Gb; that's probably what you tickled. I've fixed this in HEAD, but it doesn't seem worth back-patching

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with query plan

2004-10-22 Thread Tom Lane
Cott Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fiddling with the above values, only setting sort_mem absurdly large > easily causes NAN. Ah. I see an overflow case for sort_mem exceeding 1Gb; that's probably what you tickled. I've fixed this in HEAD, but it doesn't seem worth back-patching. If you ca

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with query plan

2004-10-22 Thread Cott Lang
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 14:19, Tom Lane wrote: > Cott Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > sort_mem = 8192 > > random_page_cost = 2 > > effective_cache_size = 3932160 > > effective_cache_size 30Gb ? Seems a tad high ;-) It's a 32GB machine with nothing else running on it except PG, buffers hover a

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with query plan

2004-10-22 Thread Tom Lane
Cott Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > sort_mem = 8192 > random_page_cost = 2 > effective_cache_size = 3932160 effective_cache_size 30Gb ? Seems a tad high ;-) However, I set up a dummy test case on 7.4.5 and don't see any overflow. regression=# create table z1(f1 char(1253)); CREATE TABLE reg

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with query plan

2004-10-22 Thread Cott Lang
shared_buffers = 16384 sort_mem = 8192 random_page_cost = 2 effective_cache_size = 3932160 On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 13:32, Tom Lane wrote: > Cott Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Oops, sorry - guess I left that out - 7.4.5. :) > > Hmm ... I can't duplicate any misbehavior here. Are you using >

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with query plan

2004-10-22 Thread Tom Lane
Cott Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oops, sorry - guess I left that out - 7.4.5. :) Hmm ... I can't duplicate any misbehavior here. Are you using nondefault values for any planner parameters? (particularly sort_mem, random_page_cost, effective_cache_size) regards, to

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with query plan

2004-10-22 Thread Cott Lang
Oops, sorry - guess I left that out - 7.4.5. :) On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 12:28, Tom Lane wrote: > Cott Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >-> Sort (cost=nan..nan rows=2023865 width=1257) > > What PG version is this? My recollection is we fixed such a thing quite > some time ago ... > >

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with query plan

2004-10-22 Thread Tom Lane
Cott Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >-> Sort (cost=nan..nan rows=2023865 width=1257) What PG version is this? My recollection is we fixed such a thing quite some time ago ... regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)-