Listen "Custom vs generic plan"
Episode Synopsis
Nikolay and Michael discuss custom and generic planning in prepared statements — how it works, how issues can present themselves, some ways to view the generic plan, and some benefits of avoiding planning (not just time). Here are some links to things they mentioned:PREPARE https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-prepare.html track_activity_query_size https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-statistics.html#GUC-TRACK-ACTIVITY-QUERY-SIZE plan_cache_mode https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-query.html#GUC-PLAN-CACHE-MODE EXPLAIN (GENERIC_PLAN) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-explain.html#id-1.9.3.148.8 EXPLAIN (GENERIC_PLAN) in PostgreSQL 16 (blog post by Laurenz from Cybertec) https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/explain-generic-plan-postgresql-16/ Running EXPLAIN on any query, even with $1 parameters (blog post and video by Lukas Fittl of pganalyze) https://pganalyze.com/blog/5mins-postgres-explain-generic-plan EXPLAIN from pg_stat_statements, how to get the generic plan (blog post by Franck Pashto of Yugabyte) https://dev.to/yugabyte/explain-from-pgstatstatements-normalized-queries-how-to-always-get-the-generic-plan-in--5cfi Rework query relation permission checking (commit by Amit Langote) https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/postgres.git?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=a61b1f74823c9c4f79c95226a461f1e7a367764b Partition pruning, prepared statements and generic vs custom query plans (a follow up blog post and video by Lukas) https://pganalyze.com/blog/5mins-postgres-partition-pruning-prepared-statements-generic-vs-custom-query-plans Our episode on over-indexing (inc LWLock discussion) https://postgres.fm/episodes/over-indexing “The year of the lock manager’s revenge” (from blog post by Jeremy Schneider) https://ardentperf.com/2024/03/03/postgres-indexes-partitioning-and-lwlocklockmanager-scalability/ ~~~What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc!~~~Postgres FM is brought to you by:Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.aiMichael Christofides, founder of pgMustardWith special thanks to:Jessie Draws for the amazing artwork
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