Re: Unexpected Performance for the Function simplify_function

2024-10-25 Thread Tom Lane
value, but so far not backed by any great deal of hard evidence.) regards, tom lane

Re: Unexpected Performance for the Function simplify_function

2024-10-24 Thread Tom Lane
whose estimated cost depends enormously on random_page_cost. You've given us exactly zero detail about your test conditions, so it's hard to say more than that. regards, tom lane

Re: Unexpected Performance for the Function simplify_function

2024-10-24 Thread Tom Lane
riosity, was this AI-generated? regards, tom lane

Re: Performance degradation in Index searches with special characters

2024-10-06 Thread Tom Lane
can do about it. regards, tom lane

Re: Performance degradation in Index searches with special characters

2024-10-06 Thread Tom Lane
try=0x7fabcde7eed0, key=key@entry=0x7ffddd3b10c0, buf=) at nbtsearch.c:394 It's not the fault of the index machinery, because a single comparison takes the same amount of time: u8=# select '<' <= repeat('<', 65536); ?column? -- t (1 row) Time: 1391.550 ms (00:01.392) I didn't try it with ICU. regards, tom lane

Re: Estimate of the inner_rows

2024-09-08 Thread Tom Lane
of the b_idx result is based on considering the selectivity of "t2.b = ?" where the comparison value is not known. Because there are so many b values that are unique, we end up estimating the average number of matching rows as 1 even though it will be far higher for a few values. regards, tom lane

Re: Estimate of the inner_rows

2024-09-08 Thread Tom Lane
Filter: (c = 10) > (6 rows) I tried to reproduce this and could not. What PG version are you running exactly? Can you provide a self-contained example? regards, tom lane

Re: checking for a NULL date in a partitioned table kills performance

2024-08-22 Thread Tom Lane
significantly cheaper than scanning the whole table. regards, tom lane

Re: Trying to understand why a query is filtering when there is a composite index

2024-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
he particular tuples you were fetching were in not-all-visible pages. That seems plausible to me. regards, tom lane

Re: Trying to understand why a query is filtering when there is a composite index

2024-08-18 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Geoghegan writes: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 10:50 PM Tom Lane wrote: >> Yeah, that part is a weakness I've wanted to fix for a long >> time: it could do the filter condition by fetching b from the >> index, but it doesn't notice that and has to go to the he

Re: Trying to understand why a query is filtering when there is a composite index

2024-08-18 Thread Tom Lane
by fetching b from the index, but it doesn't notice that and has to go to the heap to get b. (If the other plan does win, it'd likely be because of that problem and not because the index scanning strategy per se is better.) regards, tom lane

Re: Postgres index usage

2024-08-07 Thread Tom Lane
idate a conclusion that an index with idx_scan = 0 isn't being used, but it's something to keep in mind when running small tests that are only expected to record a few events. regards, tom lane

Re: Outer cost higher than the inner cost

2024-07-26 Thread Tom Lane
o be run to completion. See initial_cost_mergejoin in costsize.c. regards, tom lane

Re: Query performance issue

2024-07-10 Thread Tom Lane
he alternatives won't be better in terms of performance impact. Really, if this is a problem for you, you need a beefier server. Or split the work across more than one server. regards, tom lane

Re: performance of sql and plpgsql functions

2024-06-17 Thread Tom Lane
nd so with a generic plan the planner will not risk using a plan that depends on the parameter value being infrequent, as the one you're showing does. regards, tom lane

Re: Extremely slow to establish connection when user has a high number of roles

2024-04-21 Thread Tom Lane
Michal Charemza writes: > Tom Lane writes: >> I'm fairly sure that if that exists it's always noticed first, >> bypassing the need for any role membership tests. So please >> confirm whether your production database has revoked PUBLIC >> connect privilege.

Re: Extremely slow to establish connection when user has a high number of roles

2024-04-20 Thread Tom Lane
Michal Charemza writes: > Tom Lane writes: >> It's not very clear what you mean by "sometimes". Is the slowness > reproducible for a particular user and role configuration, or does > it seem to come and go by itself? > Ah it's more come and go by itself -

Re: Extremely slow to establish connection when user has a high number of roles

2024-04-20 Thread Tom Lane
. If so, we could consider back-patching 14e991db8 further than v16 ... but I don't plan to take any risk there without concrete evidence that it'd improve things. regards, tom lane

Re: Simple JOIN on heavy table not using expected index

2024-02-09 Thread Tom Lane
ht not find that the query gets any faster. regards, tom lane

Re: I don't understand that EXPLAIN PLAN timings

2024-01-25 Thread Tom Lane
#x27;s a bad idea. regards, tom lane

Re: Why is a sort required for this query? (IS NULL predicate on leading key column)

2024-01-17 Thread Tom Lane
en as an equality condition, no. It's pretty much of a hack that makes it an indexable condition at all, and we don't really do any advanced optimization with it. regards, tom lane

Re: Selection not "pushed down into" CTE

2024-01-07 Thread Tom Lane
but * subquery_is_pushdown_safe handles that.) To conclude that it'd be safe with this particular window function requires deep knowledge of that function's semantics, which the planner has not got. regards, tom lane

Re: Questions about "Output" in EXPLAIN ANALYZE VERBOSE

2024-01-02 Thread Tom Lane
that are needed. It depends. The planner may choose to tell a non-top-level scan node to return all columns, in hopes of saving a tuple projection step at runtime. That's heuristic and depends on a number of factors, so you shouldn't count on it happening or not happening. regards, tom lane

Re: Question about semantics of $ variables in json explain plans in 13

2023-12-08 Thread Tom Lane
mably $1 and $2 were replaced as well; we don't do half-custom plans.) regards, tom lane

Re: 2 json explain plans for the same query/plan - why does one have constants while the other has parameter markers?

2023-12-08 Thread Tom Lane
to see if that's meaningfully slower -- if not, replanning each time is deemed to be wasteful. regards, tom lane

Re: Does Postgres have consistent identifiers (plan hash value) for explain plans?

2023-12-04 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Paquier writes: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 09:57:24AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> Jerry Brenner writes: >>> Both Oracle and SQL Server have >>> consistent hash values for query plans and that makes it easy to identify >>> when there are multiple plans fo

Re: Does Postgres have consistent identifiers (plan hash value) for explain plans?

2023-12-04 Thread Tom Lane
plain > plan)? No, there's no support currently for obtaining a hash value that's associated with a plan rather than an input query tree. regards, tom lane

Re: Performance degradation with CTEs, switching from PG 11 to PG 15

2023-11-22 Thread Tom Lane
ore) it is a real problem. PG 11 is out of support as of earlier this month, so your users really need to be prioritizing getting onto more modern versions. regards, tom lane

Re: Postgres Locking

2023-10-31 Thread Tom Lane
SELECT * FROM that_table WHERE ctid = '(0,1)'; to see the previous state of the problematic tuple. Might help to decipher the problem. regards, tom lane

Re: Postgres 15 SELECT query doesn't use index under RLS

2023-10-26 Thread Tom Lane
has a bloated index, and that's driving up the estimated cost enough to steer the planner away from it. regards, tom lane

Re: Postgres 15 SELECT query doesn't use index under RLS

2023-10-18 Thread Tom Lane
7;ve given so far, little is possible beyond speculation. regards, tom lane

Re: Underestimated number of output rows with an aggregate function

2023-10-15 Thread Tom Lane
is is normal. Sure. The output of the WITH is visibly unique on c1. regards, tom lane

Re: Postgres 15 SELECT query doesn't use index under RLS

2023-10-13 Thread Tom Lane
;tenant_id" column in all our indexes to make them work > under RLS? Adding tenant_id is going to bloat your indexes quite a bit, so I wouldn't do that except in cases where you've demonstrated it's important. regards, tom lane

Re: Unexpected termination looping over table.

2023-10-01 Thread Tom Lane
t you're using some extension that isn't happy. regards, tom lane

Re: pgsql 10.23 , different systems, same table , same plan, different Buffers: shared hit

2023-09-15 Thread Tom Lane
icated multi-pass sort rules. AFAICT from the FreeBSD sort(1) man page, FreeBSD defines en_US as "same as C except case-insensitive", whereas I'm pretty sure that underscores and other punctuation are nearly ignored in glibc's interpretation; they'll only be taken into account if the alphanumeric parts of the strings sort equal. regards, tom lane

Re: pgsql 10.23 , different systems, same table , same plan, different Buffers: shared hit

2023-09-15 Thread Tom Lane
. I speculate that you are using different collations on the two systems, and FreeBSD's collation happens to place the first matching row earlier in the index. regards, tom lane

Re: Planning time is time-consuming

2023-09-11 Thread Tom Lane
le I doubt fixing that would move the needle greatly, it still seems sloppy. regards, tom lane

Re: Slow query, possibly not using index

2023-08-27 Thread Tom Lane
ll take days to do this. Maybe I can try to dump the whole database > and restore it on another machine. Pretty hard to believe that dump-and-restore would be faster than VACUUM. > (Is there a way to check the number of dead rows?) I think contrib/pgstattuple might help. regards, tom lane

Re: Slow query, possibly not using index

2023-08-27 Thread Tom Lane
ndex, because reading a single > (random?) entry from an index should not run for >10 minutes. You should believe what EXPLAIN tells you about the plan shape. (Its rowcount estimates are only estimates, though.) regards, tom lane

Re: slow delete

2023-08-15 Thread Tom Lane
speed of deletes from the PK table ... regards, tom lane

Re: Plan weirdness. A sort produces more rows than the node beneath it

2023-08-04 Thread Tom Lane
a LOT on the merge side. Hmm. The planner should avoid using a merge join if it knows that to be true. Maybe analyze'ing that table would prompt it to use some other join method? regards, tom lane

Re: Plan weirdness. A sort produces more rows than the node beneath it

2023-08-04 Thread Tom Lane
ved? If the sort is the inner input to a merge join, this could reflect mark-and-restore rescanning of the sort's output. Are there a whole lot of duplicate keys on the merge's other side? regards, tom lane

Re: Postgresql equal join on function with columns not use index

2023-06-13 Thread Tom Lane
| v > 17097 | regexp_replace | oracle | f | f | v > 17098 | regexp_replace | oracle | f | f | v Why in the world are the oracle ones marked volatile? That's what's preventing them from being used in index quals. regards, tom lane

Re: Postgresql equal join on function with columns not use index

2023-06-12 Thread Tom Lane
th such a fragmentary description of the problem. Please send a complete, self-contained test case if you want anybody to look at it carefully. https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Query_Questions regards, tom lane

Re: Weird behavior of INSERT QUERY

2023-06-04 Thread Tom Lane
trigger. Perhaps auto_explain with auto_explain.log_nested_statements enabled would give some insight. I suspect there might be a permissions problem causing schema1_u to not be allowed to "see" the statistics for table_b, resulting in a bad plan choice for the FK enforcement query; but that's

Re: PostgreSQL performance on ARM i.MX6

2023-05-23 Thread Tom Lane
nteresting to compare exactly that test case on your ARM board. regards, tom lane

Re: Performance issues in query with multiple joins

2023-04-28 Thread Tom Lane
lly if performance is a problem you should think about ditching the star schema design. regards, tom lane

Re: High QPS, random index writes and vacuum

2023-04-17 Thread Tom Lane
obody's gotten around to implementing that in Postgres AFAIK. regards, tom lane

Re: Query unable to utilize index without typecast to fixed length character

2023-04-06 Thread Tom Lane
at unlabeled string constants will tend to get resolved to that.) regards, tom lane

Re: Why are commits consuming most of the database time?

2023-04-04 Thread Tom Lane
re told got committed.) If you do need strict ACID compliance, get a better disk subsystem. Or, perhaps, just a better OS ... Windows is generally not thought of as the best-performing platform for Postgres. regards, tom lane

Re: Connection forcibly closed remote server error.

2023-02-15 Thread Tom Lane
ssive TCP keepalive parameters might help. regards, tom lane

Re: Domain check taking place unnecessarily?

2023-02-09 Thread Tom Lane
guaranteed to satisfy the domain check, because the > domain check is guaranteed to be immutable (per [1] in my original mail) immutable != "will accept null". There could be some more optimizations here, perhaps, but there aren't. regards, tom lane

Re: ALTER STATEMENT getting blocked

2023-01-19 Thread Tom Lane
ter the ALTER begins waiting. regards, tom lane

Re: change the default value of enable_bitmapscan to off

2023-01-14 Thread Tom Lane
Note that changing planner parameters on the basis of a single query getting slower is a classic beginner error. You need to think about the totality of the installation's workload. regards, tom lane

Re: When you really want to force a certain join type?

2022-12-28 Thread Tom Lane
s per spec. regards, tom lane

Re: Fwd: temp_file_limit?

2022-12-18 Thread Tom Lane
as a valid bug though. That would require a vastly more complicated implementation. regards, tom lane

Re: JSON down performacen when id:1

2022-12-16 Thread Tom Lane
actually had to check even more than 155K rows. You need a better index. It might be that switching to a jsonb_path_ops index would be enough to fix it, or you might need to build an expression index matched specifically to this type of query. See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-json.html#JSON-INDEXING Also, if any of the terminology there doesn't make sense, read https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/indexes.html regards, tom lane

Re: Increased iowait and blk_read_time with higher shared_buffers

2022-12-14 Thread Tom Lane
r. It is a rough rule of thumb that was invented for far smaller machines than what you're talking about here. regards, tom lane

Re: Odd Choice of seq scan

2022-12-01 Thread Tom Lane
in WHERE. You have to help it along with UNION or some similar locution. regards, tom lane

Re: Geometric types row estimation

2022-11-30 Thread Tom Lane
d be likely to have motivation to improve things. regards, tom lane

Re: Geometric types row estimation

2022-11-30 Thread Tom Lane
a lot of work to make these estimators better, have at it. regards, tom lane [1] https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob_plain;f=src/backend/utils/adt/geo_selfuncs.c;hb=HEAD

Re: Catching up with performance & PostgreSQL 15

2022-11-30 Thread Tom Lane
users who will not be happy with that. We really need to prioritize fixing the cost-estimation problems, and/or tweaking the default thresholds. regards, tom lane

Re: Catching up with performance & PostgreSQL 15

2022-11-29 Thread Tom Lane
here are serious bugs in the cost-estimation algorithms for deciding when to use it. A nearby example[1] of a sub-1-sec partitioned query that took 30sec after JIT was enabled makes me wonder if we're accounting correctly for per-partition JIT costs. reg

Re: why choosing an hash index instead of the btree version even if the cost is lower?

2022-11-18 Thread Tom Lane
the startup costs, which is where the hash index wins. I'm not sure if it's quite fair to give hash a zero startup cost; but it doesn't have to descend a search tree, so it is fair that its startup cost is less than btree's. regards, tom lane

Re: When can joins be avoided?

2022-11-17 Thread Tom Lane
which joins > could be avoided. I believe only left joins to single tables can be elided ATM. It's too hard to prove uniqueness of the join key in more- complicated cases. regards, tom lane

Re: pgbench: could not connect to server: Resource temporarily unavailable

2022-08-23 Thread Tom Lane
ilently does nothing on platforms lacking ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE and PROC_ASLR_FORCE_DISABLE. Are you asserting there are no such platforms? (I'm happy to lose the comment if it's really useless now, but I think we have little evidence of that.) regards, tom lane

Re: pgbench: could not connect to server: Resource temporarily unavailable

2022-08-22 Thread Tom Lane
Thomas Munro writes: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 4:57 AM Tom Lane wrote: > +service the requests, with those clients receiving unhelpful > +connection failure errors such as Resource temporarily > +unavailable. > LGTM but I guess I would add "... or Connection re

Re: pgbench: could not connect to server: Resource temporarily unavailable

2022-08-22 Thread Tom Lane
that without somebody making a well-reasoned case for some other number. regards, tom lane

Re: pgbench: could not connect to server: Resource temporarily unavailable

2022-08-22 Thread Tom Lane
n MaxBackends. I think the most appropriate definition for the listen queue length is now MaxConnections * 2, not MaxBackends * 2, because the other processes counted in MaxBackends don't correspond to incoming connections. I propose 0003 for HEAD only, but the docs changes could be back-pa

Re: pgbench: could not connect to server: Resource temporarily unavailable

2022-08-21 Thread Tom Lane
document at least three different sysctl names for this setting :-( regards, tom lane

Re: pgbench: could not connect to server: Resource temporarily unavailable

2022-08-21 Thread Tom Lane
Thomas Munro writes: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 12:20 PM Tom Lane wrote: >> Hmm. It'll be awhile till the 128 default disappears entirely >> though, especially if assorted BSDen use that too. Probably >> worth the trouble to document. > I could try to write a doc p

Re: pgbench: could not connect to server: Resource temporarily unavailable

2022-08-21 Thread Tom Lane
tone-age kernels. It's hard to believe any modern kernel can't defend itself against silly listen-queue requests. regards, tom lane

Re: pgbench: could not connect to server: Resource temporarily unavailable

2022-08-21 Thread Tom Lane
q retry after EAGAIN. It would make sense for this particular undocumented use of EAGAIN, but I'm worried about others, especially the documented reason. On the whole I'm inclined to leave the code alone; but is there sufficient reason to add something about adjusting somaxconn to our documentation? regards, tom lane

Re: pgbench: could not connect to server: Resource temporarily unavailable

2022-08-21 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan writes: > On 2022-08-21 Su 17:15, Tom Lane wrote: >> On the whole this is smelling more like a Linux kernel bug than >> anything else. > *nod* Conceivably we could work around this in libpq: on EAGAIN, just retry the failed connect(), or maybe better to close t

Re: pgbench: could not connect to server: Resource temporarily unavailable

2022-08-21 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan writes: > On 2022-08-20 Sa 23:20, Tom Lane wrote: >> Kevin McKibbin writes: >>> What's limiting my DB from allowing more connections? > The first question in my mind from the above is where this postgres > instance is actually listening. Is it re

Re: pgbench: could not connect to server: Resource temporarily unavailable

2022-08-20 Thread Tom Lane
pport the number of connections you want. Since you haven't mentioned what platform this is on, it's impossible to say more than that --- but it doesn't look like Postgres configuration settings are at issue at all. regards, tom lane

Re: PostgresSQL 9.5.21 very slow to connect and perform basic queries

2022-08-03 Thread Tom Lane
_stat_statements.max from 10k to 3k Whether or not we've fully identified the problem, I think cutting pg_stat_statements.max is a good idea. Especially as long as you're stuck on an unsupported PG version. regards, tom lane

Re: PostgresSQL 9.5.21 very slow to connect and perform basic queries

2022-08-02 Thread Tom Lane
uld build back up to 2.2GB of text after five thousand or so of those. I'm also curious whether this installation is in the habit of doing pg_stat_statements_reset() a lot. It looks like that fails to reset mean_query_len, which might be intentional but perhaps it could play into getting a silly result here later on. regards, tom lane

Re: PostgresSQL 9.5.21 very slow to connect and perform basic queries

2022-08-02 Thread Tom Lane
de though. Are you quite sure this is a 9.5.21 version of the pg_stat_statements extension? Is it possible that the pg_stat_tmp directory has been made non-writable? regards, tom lane > Are there any other signs of distress > in the postmaster log, like co

Re: PostgresSQL 9.5.21 very slow to connect and perform basic queries

2022-08-02 Thread Tom Lane
w that can come to be. Do you have a lot of especially long statements being tracked in the pg_stat_statements view? Are there any other signs of distress in the postmaster log, like complaints about being unable to write pgss_query_texts.stat? regards, tom lane

Re: alter table xxx set unlogged take long time

2022-07-27 Thread Tom Lane
g cost directly, but it would save overhead later. regards, tom lane

Re: alter table xxx set unlogged take long time

2022-07-26 Thread Tom Lane
Alter > table set xxx logged 6. Create index … The easy answer is to skip steps 3 and 5. regards, tom lane

Re: partition pruning only works for select but update

2022-07-01 Thread Tom Lane
n updating your app, instead. regards, tom lane

Re: partition pruning only works for select but update

2022-06-28 Thread Tom Lane
than it is for SELECT. regards, tom lane

Re: Adding non-selective key to jsonb query @> reduces performance?

2022-06-08 Thread Tom Lane
fault jsonb_path_ops opclass [1]. I'm not sure if that'd be faster for this scenario, but it seems worth trying. regards, tom lane [1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-json.html#JSON-INDEXING

Re: Query is taking too long i intermittent

2022-06-06 Thread Tom Lane
a bad rowcount estimate it should help with that. It's easier to read too. regards, tom lane

Re: postgres backend process hang on " D " state

2022-05-29 Thread Tom Lane
"James Pang (chaolpan)" writes: > 1. extensions > shared_preload_libraries = > 'orafce,pgaudit,pg_cron,pg_stat_statements,set_user' Can you still reproduce this if you remove all of those? regards, tom lane

Re: rows selectivity overestimate for @> operator for arrays

2022-05-27 Thread Tom Lane
in the column. but I'm not sure whether that's relevant here. One thought is that if there is a pg_statistic row but it contains no MCE list, we could assume that the column elements are all distinct and see what sort of estimate that leads us to. regards, tom lane

Re: Why is there a Sort after an Index Only Scan?

2022-05-04 Thread Tom Lane
fy the filter before it's gone very far in this index. If the shipping date and pkey are correlated in the wrong direction, that could be a very overoptimistic guess. I don't think we have adequate stats yet to detect this sort of problem. regards, tom lane

Re: LISTEN NOTIFY sometimes huge delay

2022-04-28 Thread Tom Lane
's pretty old. We've made a number of changes to the LISTEN/NOTIFY code since then; although in reading the commit log entries about them, nothing is said about long-delayed notifications. regards, tom lane

Re: Unworkable plan above certain row count

2022-04-27 Thread Tom Lane
f the estimated size of the hash table exceeds work_mem. In this case, boosting work_mem would be a mighty good idea. regards, tom lane

Re: Performance differential when 0 values present vs when 1 values present. Planner return 52k rows when 0 expected.

2022-04-25 Thread Tom Lane
column; or at least, it wouldn't tempt the planner to try this unstably- performing plan. It's trying to use the index ordering to satisfy the ORDER BY, which works great as long as it finds a dataview match in some reasonably recent index entry. Otherwise, it's going to crawl the whole

Re: How to find the final transformed query in postgresql

2022-04-18 Thread Tom Lane
riends [1]. Depending on what you mean by "final transformed query", you might instead want debug_print_rewritten, or maybe you want the plan, in which case EXPLAIN is a much friendlier way to look at it than debug_print_plan. regards, tom lane [1] https://www.

Re: Query Planner not taking advantage of HASH PARTITION

2022-04-17 Thread Tom Lane
n distribute these rows to parallel workers) Your plan-shape complaint had nothing to do with insertions; it had to do with joining the partitioned table to another table. That join can't be optimized. regards, tom lane

Re: Query Planner not taking advantage of HASH PARTITION

2022-04-17 Thread Tom Lane
wise, but they're wrong for exactly the reason that it's impossible to prune hash partitions.) regards, tom lane

Re: Slow Planning Times

2022-04-06 Thread Tom Lane
schemas for the tables, as well as EXPLAIN's output for this query. I'm wondering exactly which PG version this is, too. regards, tom lane

Re: XA transactions much slower on 14.2 than on 13.5

2022-03-04 Thread Tom Lane
Can you put together a self-contained test case that demonstrates what you're seeing? regards, tom lane

Re: Any way to speed up INSERT INTO

2022-03-04 Thread Tom Lane
e a big chunk of your problem, in which case physically grouping multiple rows into each INSERT command (... or COPY ...) is the only way to fix it. But I'd start with trying to reduce the transaction commit overhead. regards, tom lane

Re: OOM killer while pg_restore

2022-03-03 Thread Tom Lane
=?UTF-8?Q?Marc_Recht=c3=a9?= writes: > Le 03/03/2022 à 16:31, Tom Lane a écrit : >> Does memory consumption hold steady if you drop the FK constraints? > Actually the number of rows is 232735712. > Accordingly the RAM consumption would be x12 x3 = 7.8 GiB. > This is close to t

Re: OOM killer while pg_restore

2022-03-03 Thread Tom Lane
a in the table, so maybe you could make a small self-contained example using a script to generate dummy data. regards, tom lane

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