Poll about auto-index stats update in FB

Dear users,
I work at a project related to a possibility to have the index statistics auto-updated and humbly I ask your opinion. Please feel free to vote below.
TIA,
m. Th.

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How do you look a possible implementation of Auto update index statistics in Firebird?

Very useful.
It would be nice, but I can live without.
Indiferent.
I preffer my own custom way to update the statistics.
No, I’m against it.
What is this about? (or I don’t know what ‘statistics’ are)

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3 comments

  • I doubt this poll has much of the practical value, as it doesn’t mention what statistics should be updated and under what conditions (i.e. how often).

  • What statistics:
    1. Selectivity of changed indexes, of course. (or perhaps, blindly update all the indexes, I don’t think so…)
    2. Do you want to add as possible choices some other (unimplemented) statistics? Or perhaps I didn’t understand this part correctly…

    What conditions:
    Perhaps is better to make a new poll (I will do it for you) to have:

    1. After a specified amount of changes – no matter how big is the load
    2. On a low load + after a specified amount of changes.
    3. On a low load – no matter how many changes were made
    3. On a daily basis (every Th day)
    4. On weekly/monthly basis (every th week)

    Something like this?

    What’s your opinion?

    hth,

    m. th.

  • This will be like PostgreSQL’s autovacuum feature.
    Good, but not something to cry for.
    I’d rather see an internal scheduler implemented, something like Oracle’s DBMS_JOB or MySQL’s one (on 5.1) which could be used for a ton of tasks (managed in the database and through SQL, I’m aware of cron) including stats update.

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