On 7 May 2013 01:23, <mark.kirkwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm thinking that a variant of (2) might be simpler to inplement: > > (I think Matt C essentially beat me to this suggestion - he originally > discovered this issue). It is probably good enough for only *new* plans to > react to the increased/increasing number of in progress rows. So this > would require backends doing significant numbers of row changes to either > directly update pg_statistic or report their in progress numbers to the > stats collector. The key change here is the partial execution numbers > would need to be sent. Clearly one would need to avoid doing this too > often (!) - possibly only when number of changed rows > > autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor proportion of the relation concerned or > similar. Are you loading using COPY? Why not break down the load into chunks? -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance