Shouldn't this process be automatic based on some heuristics?
Saving 10ms planning but costing 14s execution is catastrophic.
For example, using some statistics to limit planner time to some percent of of previous executions.
This way, if query is fast, planning is fast, but if query is slow, more planning can save huge execution time.
This is a better general usage option and should be enabled by default, and users who want fast planning should set the variable to use the generic plan.
On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 07:45:26PM +0000, Alex wrote:
PreparedStatement: 15s
Raw query with embedded params: 1s
See issue on github with query and explain analyze:
| ..PostgreSQL Version? 12
|Prepared statement
|...
|Planning Time: 11.596 ms
|Execution Time: 14799.266 ms
|
|Raw statement
|Planning Time: 22.685 ms
|Execution Time: 1012.992 ms
The prepared statemnt has 2x faster planning time, which is what it's meant to
improve.
The execution time is slower, and I think you can improve it with this.
|plan_cache_mode (enum)
| Prepared statements (either explicitly prepared or implicitly generated, for example by PL/pgSQL) can be executed using custom or generic plans. Custom plans are made afresh for each execution using its specific set of parameter values, while generic plans do not rely on the parameter values and can be re-used across executions. Thus, use of a generic plan saves planning time, but if the ideal plan depends strongly on the parameter values then a generic plan may be inefficient. The choice between these options is normally made automatically, but it can be overridden with plan_cache_mode. The allowed values are auto (the default), force_custom_plan and force_generic_plan. This setting is considered when a cached plan is to be executed, not when it is prepared. For more information see PREPARE.
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Justin