Re: Simple queries take forever to run

Stephan Szabo wrote:

>On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Michael Guerin wrote:
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>>Stephan Szabo wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Michael Guerin wrote:
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>>>>I'm running into some performance problems trying to execute simple
>>>>queries.
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>>>>postgresql version 7.3.3
>>>>.conf params changed from defaults.
>>>>shared_buffers = 64000
>>>>sort_mem = 64000
>>>>fsync = false
>>>>effective_cache_size = 400000
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>>>>ex. query: select * from x where id in (select id from y);
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>>>>There's an index on each table for id.  SQL Server takes <1s to return,
>>>>postgresql doesn't return at all, neither does explain analyze.
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>>>IN(subquery) is known to run poorly in 7.3.x and earlier.  7.4 is
>>>generally much better (for reasonably sized subqueries) but in earlier
>>>versions you'll probably want to convert into an EXISTS or join form.
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>>Something else seems to be going on, even switching to an exists clause
>>gives much better but poor performance.
>>count(*) where exists clause: Postgresql 19s, SQL Server <1s
>>count(*) where not exists:  23.3s SQL Server 1.5s
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>What does explain analyze show for the two queries?
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explain analyze  select count(*) from tbltimeseries where exists(select
uniqid  from tblobjectname where timeseriesid = uniqid);
Aggregate  (cost=5681552.18..5681552.18 rows=1 width=0) (actual
time=22756.64..22756.64 rows=1 loops=1)
   ->  Seq Scan on tbltimeseries  (cost=0.00..5680051.34 rows=600336
width=0) (actual time=22.06..21686.78 rows=1200113 loops=1)
         Filter: (NOT (subplan))
         SubPlan
           ->  Index Scan using idx_objectname on tblobjectname
(cost=0.00..4.70 rows=1 width=4) (actual time=0.01..0.01 rows=0
loops=1200673)
                 Index Cond: ($0 = uniqid)
 Total runtime: 22756.83 msec
(7 rows)

fiasco=# explain analyze  select count(*) from tbltimeseries where
exists(select uniqid  from tblobjectname where timeseriesid = uniqid);
                                                                   QUERY
PLAN

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explain analyze  select count(*) from tbltimeseries where exists(select
uniqid  from tblobjectname where timeseriesid = uniqid);
 Aggregate  (cost=5681552.18..5681552.18 rows=1 width=0) (actual
time=19558.77..19558.77 rows=1 loops=1)
   ->  Seq Scan on tbltimeseries  (cost=0.00..5680051.34 rows=600336
width=0) (actual time=0.21..19557.73 rows=560 loops=1)
         Filter: (subplan)
         SubPlan
           ->  Index Scan using idx_objectname on tblobjectname
(cost=0.00..4.70 rows=1 width=4) (actual time=0.01..0.01 rows=0
loops=1200673)
                 Index Cond: ($0 = uniqid)
 Total runtime: 19559.04 msec
(7 rows)