On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 09:28, David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 06:44, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > I was distressed to discover via perf that 69% of the runtime of this
> > test now goes into match_eclasses_to_foreign_key_col(). That seems
> > clearly unacceptable.
>
> Agreed. That's pretty terrible.
>
> I looked at this a bit and see that
> match_eclasses_to_foreign_key_col() is missing any smarts to skip
> equivalence classes that don't have ec_relids bits for both rels. With
> that added the run-time is reduced pretty dramatically.
>
> I've only tested with a debug build as of now, but I get:
>
> Unpatched:
>
> $ pgbench -n -T 60 -f query.sql postgres
> latency average = 18411.604 ms
>
> Patched:
> latency average = 8748.177 ms
So that this does not get lost, I've added an entry for the original
patch for the March commitfest.
While the patch does not bring the performance back to what it was
before this code was added, it makes a massive dent in the additional
overhead.
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/22/1984/
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