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
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
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