Planning time

Nikolay and Michael discuss planning time in Postgres — what it is, how to spot issues, its relationship to things like partitioning, and some tips for avoiding issues.

Here are some links to things they mentioned:
• Query Planning (docs) postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-que…
• Are there limits to partition counts? (Blog post by depesz) depesz.com/2021/01/17/are-there-limits-to-part…
• Nikolays recent experiment postgres.ai/chats/01920004-a982-7896-b8cb-dfd2…
• PgBouncer now supports prepared statements github.com/pgbouncer/pgbouncer/releases/tag/pg…
• “The year of the lock manager’s revenge” (from blog post by Jeremy Schneider) ardentperf.com/2024/03/03/postgres-indexes-par…
• pg_stat_statements.track_planning postgresql.org/docs/current/pgstatstatements.h…
• pg_hint_plan github.com/ossc-db/pg_hint_plan

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