Re: Trying to track down weird query stalls

> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 4:02 PM,  <dan@sidhe.org> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:42 PM,  <dan@sidhe.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:42 PM,  <dan@sidhe.org> wrote:
>>>>>> Arguably in this case the actual query should run faster than the
>>>>>> EXPLAIN
>>>>>> ANALYZE version, since the cache is hot. (Though that'd only likely
>>>>>> shave
>>>>>> a few dozen ms off the runtime)
>>>>>
>>>>> Joining a lot of tables together?  Could be GEQO kicking in.
>>>>
>>>> Only if I get different query plans for the query depending on whether
>>>> it's being EXPLAIN ANALYZEd or not. That seems unlikely...
>>>
>>> Yes, you can.  In fact you often will.  Not because it's being
>>> explained or not, just because that's how GEQO works.
>>
>> Ouch. I did *not* know that was possible -- I assumed that the plan was
>> deterministic and independent of explain analyze. The query has seven
>> tables (one of them a temp table) and my geqo_threshold is set to 12. If
>> I'm reading the docs right GEQO shouldn't kick in.
>
> Any chance we could see the actual query?  Right now I think we are
> shooting in the dark.

The query is:

select distinct
       temp_symbol.entityid,
       temp_symbol.libname,
       temp_symbol.objid,
       temp_symbol.objname,
       temp_symbol.fromsymid,
       temp_symbol.fromsymtype,
       temp_symbol.objinstance,
       NULL,
       temp_symbol.csid,
       libinstance.entityid,
       NULL,
       libobject.objid,
       NULL,
       provide_symbol.symbolid,
       provide_symbol.symboltype,
       libobject.objinstance,
       libobject.libinstanceid,
       objectinstance.csid,
       NULL,
       provide_symbol.is_weak,
       NULL,
       provide_symbol.is_local,
       NULL,
       provide_symbol.is_template,
       NULL,
       provide_symbol.is_common
  from libinstance,
       library,
       libobject,
       provide_symbol,
       temp_symbol,
       objectinstance,
       attributes
where libinstance.libdate <= 1238445044
   and libinstance.enddate > 1238445044
   and libinstance.libinstanceid = libobject.libinstanceid
   and libinstance.architecture = ?


   and attributes.entityid = libinstance.entityid
   and attributes.branchid = libinstance.branchid
   and attributes.architecture = libinstance.architecture
   and library.libid = libinstance.libid
   and not secondary
and attribute in ('notoffline', 'notoffline')
and (provide_symbol.symboltype = 'T')
   and libobject.objinstance = provide_symbol.objinstance
   and libinstance.branchid = ?
   and provide_symbol.symbolid = temp_symbol.symbolid
   and objectinstance.objinstance = libobject.objinstance
and libinstance.istemp =  0

The explain analyze for the query's attached in a (possibly hopeless)
attempt to keep it from being word-wrapped into unreadability.

-Dan