Re: Query completed in < 1s in PG 9.1 and ~ 700s in PG 9.2

I've raised both to 25 in PG 9.2 and reloaded the server. Didn't make
any difference. :(

Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

Cheers,
Rodrigo.

Em 06-11-2012 16:08, ktm@rice.edu escreveu:
> Hi Rodrigo,
>
> It looks like a lot of joins and 9.2 does some optimizations that
> internally add additional joins. Did you try raising the
> join_collapse_limit and maybe the from_collapse_limit from the
> default values of 8?
>
> Regards,
> Ken
>
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 03:11:58PM -0200, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas wrote:
>> Hello, this is my first message to this list, so sorry if this is
>> not the right place to discuss this or if some data is missing from
>> this message.
>>
>> I'll gladly send any data you request that would help us to
>> understand this issue. I don't believe I'm allowed to share the
>> actual database dump, but other than that I can provide much more
>> details you might ask for.
>>
>> I can't understand why PG 9.2 performs so differently from PG 9.1.
>>
>> I tested these queries in my Debian unstable amd64 box after
>> restoring the same database dump this morning in both PG 9.1 (Debian
>> unstable repository) and PG9.2 (Debian experimental repository) with
>> same settings:
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/3f1f3aad3847155e1e35
>>
>> Ignore all lines like the line below because it doesn't make any
>> difference on my tests if I just remove them or any other column
>> from the SELECT clause:
>>
>> "  exists(select id from condition_document_excerpt where
>> condition_id=c1686.id) as v1686_has_reference,"
>>
>> The results below are pretty much the same if you assume "SELECT 1
>> FROM ...".
>>
>> I have proper indices created for all tables and the query  is fast
>> in both PG versions when I don't use many conditions in the WHERE
>> clause.
>>
>> fast.sql returns the same data as slow.sql but it returns much
>> faster in my tests with PG 9.1.
>>
>> So here are the completion times for each query on each PG version:
>>
>> Query   | PG 9.1         | PG 9.2 |
>> -----------------------------------
>> fast.sql| 650 ms (0.65s) | 690s   |
>> slow.sql| 419s           | 111s   |
>>
>>
>> For the curious, the results would be very similar to slow.sql if I
>> use inner joins with the conditions inside the WHERE moved to the
>> "ON" clause of the inner join instead of the left outer join +
>> global WHERE approach. But I don't have this option anyway because
>> this query is generated dynamically and not all my queries are
>> "ALL"-like queries.
>>
>> Here are the relevant indices (id is SERIAL primary key in all tables):
>>
>> CREATE UNIQUE INDEX transaction_condition_transaction_id_type_id_idx
>>    ON transaction_condition
>>    USING btree
>>    (transaction_id, type_id);
>> CREATE INDEX index_transaction_condition_on_transaction_id
>>    ON transaction_condition
>>    USING btree
>>    (transaction_id);
>> CREATE INDEX index_transaction_condition_on_type_id
>>    ON transaction_condition
>>    USING btree
>>    (type_id);
>>
>> CREATE INDEX acquirer_target_names
>>    ON company_transaction
>>    USING btree
>>    (acquiror_company_name COLLATE pg_catalog."default",
>> target_company_name COLLATE pg_catalog."default");
>> CREATE INDEX index_company_transaction_on_target_company_name
>>    ON company_transaction
>>    USING btree
>>    (target_company_name COLLATE pg_catalog."default");
>> CREATE INDEX index_company_transaction_on_date
>>    ON company_transaction
>>    USING btree
>>    (date);
>> CREATE INDEX index_company_transaction_on_edit_status
>>    ON company_transaction
>>    USING btree
>>    (edit_status COLLATE pg_catalog."default");
>>
>> CREATE UNIQUE INDEX index_condition_boolean_value_on_condition_id
>>    ON condition_boolean_value
>>    USING btree
>>    (condition_id);
>> CREATE INDEX index_condition_boolean_value_on_value_and_condition_id
>>    ON condition_boolean_value
>>    USING btree
>>    (value COLLATE pg_catalog."default", condition_id);
>>
>> CREATE UNIQUE INDEX index_condition_option_value_on_condition_id
>>    ON condition_option_value
>>    USING btree
>>    (condition_id);
>> CREATE INDEX index_condition_option_value_on_value_id_and_condition_id
>>    ON condition_option_value
>>    USING btree
>>    (value_id, condition_id);
>>
>>
>> CREATE INDEX index_condition_option_label_on_type_id_and_position
>>    ON condition_option_label
>>    USING btree
>>    (type_id, "position");
>> CREATE INDEX index_condition_option_label_on_type_id_and_value
>>    ON condition_option_label
>>    USING btree
>>    (type_id, value COLLATE pg_catalog."default");
>>
>>
>> CREATE UNIQUE INDEX index_condition_string_value_on_condition_id
>>    ON condition_string_value
>>    USING btree
>>    (condition_id);
>> CREATE INDEX index_condition_string_value_on_value_and_condition_id
>>    ON condition_string_value
>>    USING btree
>>    (value COLLATE pg_catalog."default", condition_id);
>>
>>
>> Please let me know of any suggestions on how to try to get similar
>> results in PG 9.2 as well as to understand why fast.sql performs so
>> much better than slow.sql on PG 9.1.
>>
>> Best,
>> Rodrigo.