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plans for PostgreSQL 12

От
Pavel Stehule
Дата:
Hi

I am sending my ToDo for PostgreSQL 12 - a list of features what I would to develop or I would to participate on:

1. schema variables - CREATE VARIABLE command
2. using pgbench expressions for psql - review, cooperation
3. JSON related patches - review
4. optimization expression without necessity to create snapshots - experiments

@4 There are lot of not database expressions in PLpgSQL - like var1 := var1 + var2 or var1 := var1 + konst. Own calculation needs about 1% of time of total expression evaluation time. Almost all time get preparing plan cache, preparing snapshot, .. For this case, when no database object is used, we don't need use this infrastructure. I would to measure performance impact, and testing if these optimizations are interesting or not.

I finalizing a article about PostgreSQL 11. It will great release. The progress in partitioning area is massive. It is hard to believe so Postgres has JIT. I hope so PostgreSQL will be better.

Regards

Pavel

Re: plans for PostgreSQL 12

От
Simon Riggs
Дата:
On 4 June 2018 at 06:08, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:

> 4. optimization expression without necessity to create snapshots -
> experiments
>
> @4 There are lot of not database expressions in PLpgSQL - like var1 := var1
> + var2 or var1 := var1 + konst. Own calculation needs about 1% of time of
> total expression evaluation time. Almost all time get preparing plan cache,
> preparing snapshot, .. For this case, when no database object is used, we
> don't need use this infrastructure. I would to measure performance impact,
> and testing if these optimizations are interesting or not.

Sounds good. I think this would need to be restricted by operator and
datatype, since in general you won't know if the datatype functions
need a snapshot or not. Immutable functions for the operators ought to
do it, but I think that might not be enough.

-- 
Simon Riggs                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services


Re: plans for PostgreSQL 12

От
Pavel Stehule
Дата:


2018-06-04 8:35 GMT+02:00 Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>:
On 4 June 2018 at 06:08, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:

> 4. optimization expression without necessity to create snapshots -
> experiments
>
> @4 There are lot of not database expressions in PLpgSQL - like var1 := var1
> + var2 or var1 := var1 + konst. Own calculation needs about 1% of time of
> total expression evaluation time. Almost all time get preparing plan cache,
> preparing snapshot, .. For this case, when no database object is used, we
> don't need use this infrastructure. I would to measure performance impact,
> and testing if these optimizations are interesting or not.

Sounds good. I think this would need to be restricted by operator and
datatype, since in general you won't know if the datatype functions
need a snapshot or not. Immutable functions for the operators ought to
do it, but I think that might not be enough.

It requires introduction of new "safe" functions (& operators). Immutable functions are not enough safe.

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.fx()
 RETURNS integer
 LANGUAGE plpgsql
 IMMUTABLE
AS $function$
BEGIN
  RETURN (SELECT count(*) FROM pg_class);
END;
$function$

postgres=# SELECT fx();
┌─────┐
│ fx  │
╞═════╡
│ 343 │
└─────┘
(1 row)

I have not a name for this new class - maybe "pure immutable". The name is not important in this moment, and I am sure, so native speakers can find good name if it is necessary.

For start I would to accept as safe functions only buildin immutable functions (& operators). From practical view it can be good enough for some first public iterations too.

I am looking to some big real project (migrated from Oracle)

The majority are

1. constant expressions: 0, NULL, '', true, false, 'yes', 'no'
2. simply operators: <, >, <> = again numbers and strings (sometimes logical predicate and, or are used)
3. + and || operators: var := var + varx
4. IS NULL, IS NOT NULL

The constant expressions can have special optimization - it is really often pattern

if expr then
  a := const;
else
  a := other_const;
end if;

Because expressions are not typical bottleneck in PL/pgSQL, then typical speedup will not be 100%, but The PL/pgSQL can lost bad reputation about calculation power, and it can be interesting for PostGIS people and some speedup can be measurable in applications migrated from Oracle - these people did not write code for PL/pgSQL and didn't count number of expressions. And any speedup is not bad.

I have not idea, how the code will be ugly - it is a experiment, and I am thinking so it can be very interesting

Regards

Pavel







--
Simon Riggs                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

Re: plans for PostgreSQL 12

От
Heikki Linnakangas
Дата:
On 04/06/18 09:12, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2018-06-04 8:35 GMT+02:00 Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>:
>>
>> Sounds good. I think this would need to be restricted by operator and
>> datatype, since in general you won't know if the datatype functions
>> need a snapshot or not. Immutable functions for the operators ought to
>> do it, but I think that might not be enough.
> 
> It requires introduction of new "safe" functions (& operators). Immutable
> functions are not enough safe.
> 
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.fx()
>   RETURNS integer
>   LANGUAGE plpgsql
>   IMMUTABLE
> AS $function$
> BEGIN
>    RETURN (SELECT count(*) FROM pg_class);
> END;
> $function$
> 
> postgres=# SELECT fx();
> ┌─────┐
> │ fx  │
> ╞═════╡
> │ 343 │
> └─────┘
> (1 row)

That function is incorrectly marked as IMMUTABLE. In that situation, 
it's enough that we throw a sane error like "ERROR: no snapshot available".

- Heikki


Re: plans for PostgreSQL 12

От
Pavel Stehule
Дата:


2018-06-04 9:24 GMT+02:00 Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>:
On 04/06/18 09:12, Pavel Stehule wrote:
2018-06-04 8:35 GMT+02:00 Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>:

Sounds good. I think this would need to be restricted by operator and
datatype, since in general you won't know if the datatype functions
need a snapshot or not. Immutable functions for the operators ought to
do it, but I think that might not be enough.

It requires introduction of new "safe" functions (& operators). Immutable
functions are not enough safe.

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.fx()
  RETURNS integer
  LANGUAGE plpgsql
  IMMUTABLE
AS $function$
BEGIN
   RETURN (SELECT count(*) FROM pg_class);
END;
$function$

postgres=# SELECT fx();
┌─────┐
│ fx  │
╞═════╡
│ 343 │
└─────┘
(1 row)

That function is incorrectly marked as IMMUTABLE. In that situation, it's enough that we throw a sane error like "ERROR: no snapshot available".

Yes, it is incorrect mark. Unfortunately - this is often workaround for wrong estimations - so I afraid, in this case, your proposed fix breaks lot of applications.

Regards

Pavel



- Heikki

Re: plans for PostgreSQL 12

От
Vik Fearing
Дата:
On 04/06/18 09:37, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 
> 
> 2018-06-04 9:24 GMT+02:00 Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi
> <mailto:hlinnaka@iki.fi>>:
> 
>     On 04/06/18 09:12, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 
>         It requires introduction of new "safe" functions (& operators).
>         Immutable
>         functions are not enough safe.
> 
>         CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.fx()
>           RETURNS integer
>           LANGUAGE plpgsql
>           IMMUTABLE
>         AS $function$
>         BEGIN
>            RETURN (SELECT count(*) FROM pg_class);
>         END;
>         $function$
> 
>         postgres=# SELECT fx();
>         ┌─────┐
>         │ fx  │
>         ╞═════╡
>         │ 343 │
>         └─────┘
>         (1 row)
> 
> 
>     That function is incorrectly marked as IMMUTABLE. In that situation,
>     it's enough that we throw a sane error like "ERROR: no snapshot
>     available".
> 
> Yes, it is incorrect mark. Unfortunately - this is often workaround for
> wrong estimations - so I afraid, in this case, your proposed fix breaks
> lot of applications.

I would say such applications are already broken.
-- 
Vik Fearing                                          +33 6 46 75 15 36
http://2ndQuadrant.fr     PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support


Re: plans for PostgreSQL 12

От
Pavel Stehule
Дата:


2018-06-04 9:59 GMT+02:00 Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@2ndquadrant.com>:
On 04/06/18 09:37, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>
>
> 2018-06-04 9:24 GMT+02:00 Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi
> <mailto:hlinnaka@iki.fi>>:
>
>     On 04/06/18 09:12, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>
>         It requires introduction of new "safe" functions (& operators).
>         Immutable
>         functions are not enough safe.
>
>         CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.fx()
>           RETURNS integer
>           LANGUAGE plpgsql
>           IMMUTABLE
>         AS $function$
>         BEGIN
>            RETURN (SELECT count(*) FROM pg_class);
>         END;
>         $function$
>
>         postgres=# SELECT fx();
>         ┌─────┐
>         │ fx  │
>         ╞═════╡
>         │ 343 │
>         └─────┘
>         (1 row)
>
>
>     That function is incorrectly marked as IMMUTABLE. In that situation,
>     it's enough that we throw a sane error like "ERROR: no snapshot
>     available".
>
> Yes, it is incorrect mark. Unfortunately - this is often workaround for
> wrong estimations - so I afraid, in this case, your proposed fix breaks
> lot of applications.

I would say such applications are already broken.

I cannot to agree, not in this moment:

1. there is not any workaround, how to force subselect evaluation in planning time - what can be correct for once only evaluated queries.

2. what is not prohibited, is enabled. I agree so this trick is ugly - but I got it from Tom if I remember well maybe more than 10 years ago. Now is too late change it - I think - probably we find more strange features that we hold due compatibility. But this discussion is offtopic for this thread. I am thinking so lot of expressions can be significantly accelerated and I would to check it.

Regards

Pavel




--
Vik Fearing                                          +33 6 46 75 15 36
http://2ndQuadrant.fr     PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support

Re: plans for PostgreSQL 12

От
Andres Freund
Дата:
Hi,

On 2018-06-04 07:35:23 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On 4 June 2018 at 06:08, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 4. optimization expression without necessity to create snapshots -
> > experiments
> >
> > @4 There are lot of not database expressions in PLpgSQL - like var1 := var1
> > + var2 or var1 := var1 + konst. Own calculation needs about 1% of time of
> > total expression evaluation time. Almost all time get preparing plan cache,
> > preparing snapshot, .. For this case, when no database object is used, we
> > don't need use this infrastructure. I would to measure performance impact,
> > and testing if these optimizations are interesting or not.

Can you show your testcase and the corresponding profile? It seems like
this should be solvable without adding a new "snapshotless, really
immutable" class.


> Sounds good. I think this would need to be restricted by operator and
> datatype, since in general you won't know if the datatype functions
> need a snapshot or not. Immutable functions for the operators ought to
> do it, but I think that might not be enough.

It'd indeed not be enough. E.g. enum_lt et al are immutable but access
the catalog.

Greetings,

Andres Freund


Re: plans for PostgreSQL 12

От
Tom Lane
Дата:
Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> 2018-06-04 9:59 GMT+02:00 Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@2ndquadrant.com>:
>> On 04/06/18 09:37, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>>> Yes, it is incorrect mark. Unfortunately - this is often workaround for
>>> wrong estimations - so I afraid, in this case, your proposed fix breaks
>>> lot of applications.

>> I would say such applications are already broken.

> I cannot to agree, not in this moment:
> 1. there is not any workaround, how to force subselect evaluation in
> planning time - what can be correct for once only evaluated queries.

There's the sadly-underdocumented trick of writing the expression inside
a sub-select so that it becomes an InitPlan.  We could doubtless improve
our support for that --- for instance, teach estimate_expression_value()
how to get an estimated value when the expression is stable --- but I'm
unconvinced that we need new infrastructure for this.  Inventing a new
function volatility class would be an enormous mess from users'
standpoint, especially if the reason was only to distinguish cheating
uses from non-cheating uses of the existing class.  I am not inclined
to promise that we'll never break cheating uses.

            regards, tom lane


Re: plans for PostgreSQL 12

От
Pavel Stehule
Дата:


2018-06-04 21:53 GMT+02:00 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> 2018-06-04 9:59 GMT+02:00 Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@2ndquadrant.com>:
>> On 04/06/18 09:37, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>>> Yes, it is incorrect mark. Unfortunately - this is often workaround for
>>> wrong estimations - so I afraid, in this case, your proposed fix breaks
>>> lot of applications.

>> I would say such applications are already broken.

> I cannot to agree, not in this moment:
> 1. there is not any workaround, how to force subselect evaluation in
> planning time - what can be correct for once only evaluated queries.

There's the sadly-underdocumented trick of writing the expression inside
a sub-select so that it becomes an InitPlan.  We could doubtless improve
our support for that --- for instance, teach estimate_expression_value()
how to get an estimated value when the expression is stable --- but I'm
unconvinced that we need new infrastructure for this.  Inventing a new
function volatility class would be an enormous mess from users'
standpoint, especially if the reason was only to distinguish cheating
uses from non-cheating uses of the existing class.  I am not inclined
to promise that we'll never break cheating uses.

In this moment it is only one possible solution. The situation will be different, when there will be cleaner, better substitution. Isn't necessary to talk about it more now - or it is theme for other thread. When I worked for GoodData we should to use this technique for optimization of queries for snow flake schema. Native optimization of star schema or snow flake schema queries can be the best of.

For my test, and maybe for first releases the good optimization of faster expression evaluation can be based on immutable functions from pg_catalog schema. It is not final design, and I don't try to speak about some timing. I understand well, so working with just this subset of functions can be frustrating for users, but it can be good for start - the problem with not too strong immutable functions can be long (there can be some relation to driver level, some similar optimization cannot be principally possible when execution plan can be reused. But some drivers use prepared statements implicitly for only one execution due protection against SQL injection).

Regards

Pavel



 

                        regards, tom lane

Re: plans for PostgreSQL 12

От
Pavel Stehule
Дата:


2018-06-04 20:55 GMT+02:00 Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>:
Hi,

On 2018-06-04 07:35:23 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On 4 June 2018 at 06:08, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 4. optimization expression without necessity to create snapshots -
> > experiments
> >
> > @4 There are lot of not database expressions in PLpgSQL - like var1 := var1
> > + var2 or var1 := var1 + konst. Own calculation needs about 1% of time of
> > total expression evaluation time. Almost all time get preparing plan cache,
> > preparing snapshot, .. For this case, when no database object is used, we
> > don't need use this infrastructure. I would to measure performance impact,
> > and testing if these optimizations are interesting or not.

Can you show your testcase and the corresponding profile? It seems like
this should be solvable without adding a new "snapshotless, really
immutable" class.



./configure --with-libxml --enable-tap-tests --enable-debug --with-perl CFLAGS="-ggdb -Og -g3 -fno-omit-frame-pointer"

[pavel@nemesis postgresql]$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 8.1.1 20180502 (Red Hat 8.1.1-1)

I executed simple script

 do $$ declare i bigint = 1; s bigint = 0; begin while i <= 100000000 loop s := s + i; i := i + 1; end loop;  raise notice '%', s; end $$;

   7,68%  postmaster  postgres           [.] GetSnapshotData                               ▒
   7,53%  postmaster  plpgsql.so         [.] exec_eval_simple_expr                         ▒
   6,49%  postmaster  postgres           [.] ExecInterpExpr                                ▒
   4,13%  postmaster  postgres           [.] LWLockRelease                                 ▒
   4,12%  postmaster  postgres           [.] AllocSetAlloc                                 ▒
   3,67%  postmaster  postgres           [.] PopActiveSnapshot                             ▒
   3,39%  postmaster  postgres           [.] GetCachedPlan                                 ▒
   3,28%  postmaster  postgres           [.] SPI_plan_get_cached_plan                      ▒
   3,11%  postmaster  postgres           [.] LWLockAttemptLock                             ▒
   2,90%  postmaster  postgres           [.] OverrideSearchPathMatchesCurrent              ▒
   2,64%  postmaster  plpgsql.so         [.] plpgsql_param_eval_var                        ▒
   2,62%  postmaster  plpgsql.so         [.] exec_assign_value                             ◆
   2,42%  postmaster  postgres           [.] RevalidateCachedQuery                         ▒
   2,41%  postmaster  postgres           [.] AcquireExecutorLocks                          ▒
   2,40%  postmaster  postgres           [.] PushActiveSnapshot                            ▒
   2,30%  postmaster  postgres           [.] CopySnapshot                                  ▒
   2,27%  postmaster  postgres           [.] CheckCachedPlan                               ▒
   2,18%  postmaster  postgres           [.] AcquirePlannerLocks                           ▒
   2,01%  postmaster  postgres           [.] LWLockAcquire                                 ▒
   1,98%  postmaster  plpgsql.so         [.] exec_stmt                                     ▒
   1,94%  postmaster  postgres           [.] MemoryContextAlloc                            ▒
   1,93%  postmaster  postgres           [.] AllocSetFree                                  ▒
   1,77%  postmaster  postgres           [.] ResourceArrayRemove                           ▒
   1,64%  postmaster  plpgsql.so         [.] exec_eval_expr                                ▒
   1,62%  postmaster  postgres           [.] ResourceArrayAdd                              ▒
   1,55%  postmaster  postgres           [.] ScanQueryForLocks                             ▒
   1,34%  postmaster  postgres           [.] ReleaseCachedPlan                             ▒
   1,24%  postmaster  plpgsql.so         [.] exec_cast_value                               ▒
   1,14%  postmaster  postgres           [.] int84pl                                       ▒
   1,14%  postmaster  postgres           [.] recomputeNamespacePath                        ▒
   1,12%  postmaster  postgres           [.] GetTransactionSnapshot                        ▒
   1,08%  postmaster  plpgsql.so         [.] exec_eval_cleanup                             ▒
   0,99%  postmaster  postgres           [.] MemoryContextReset                            ▒
   0,99%  postmaster  plpgsql.so         [.] exec_assign_expr                              ▒
   0,83%  postmaster  plpgsql.so         [.] assign_simple_var                             ▒
   0,82%  postmaster  postgres           [.] int8pl                                        ▒
   0,77%  postmaster  postgres           [.] ResourceOwnerForgetPlanCacheRef               ▒
   0,75%  postmaster  postgres           [.] pfree                                         ▒
   0,69%  postmaster  postgres           [.] ResourceOwnerRememberPlanCacheRef             ▒
   0,57%  postmaster  postgres           [.] ResourceOwnerEnlargePlanCacheRefs             ▒
   0,51%  postmaster  postgres           [.] ResourceArrayEnlarge                          ▒
   0,44%  postmaster  postgres           [.] RecoveryInProgress                            ▒
   0,44%  postmaster  plpgsql.so         [.] exec_stmts                                    ▒
   0,39%  postmaster  plpgsql.so         [.] exec_eval_boolean                             ▒
   0,38%  postmaster  postgres           [.] TransactionIdPrecedes                         ▒
   0,38%  postmaster  plpgsql.so         [.] exec_stmt_while                               ▒
   0,29%  postmaster  postgres           [.] choose_custom_plan                            ▒
   0,29%  postmaster  plpgsql.so         [.] setup_param_list                              ▒
   0,27%  postmaster  plpgsql.so         [.] exec_stmt_assign                              ▒
   0,27%  postmaster  postgres           [.] GetCurrentCommandId              

report with call graph - some parts

   - 61,06% exec_assign_expr                                                               ▒
      - 55,96% exec_eval_expr                                                              ▒
         - 54,70% exec_eval_simple_expr                                                    ▒
            + 14,86% SPI_plan_get_cached_plan                                              ▒
            + 12,72% GetTransactionSnapshot                                                ▒
            + 8,26% ExecEvalExpr (inlined)                                                 ▒
            + 7,04% PushActiveSnapshot                                                     ▒
            + 4,08% PopActiveSnapshot                                                      ▒
            + 2,13% ReleaseCachedPlan                                                      ▒
              0,97% MemoryContextSwitchTo (inlined)                                        ▒
      - 3,81% exec_assign_value                                                            ▒
           0,74% assign_simple_var                                                         ▒
           0,61% exec_cast_value                                                           ▒
      + 1,14% exec_eval_cleanup     




-   11,51%     0,00%  postmaster  plpgsql.so          [.] ExecEvalExpr (inlined)           ▒
   - ExecEvalExpr (inlined)                                                                ▒
      - 11,03% ExecInterpExpr                                                              ▒
           3,10% plpgsql_param_eval_var                                                    ▒
           1,11% int84pl                                                                   ▒
           0,79% int8pl    




               - 6,90% GetCachedPlan                                                       ▒
                  - 3,36% RevalidateCachedQuery                                            ▒
                       0,96% OverrideSearchPathMatchesCurrent                              ▒
                       0,88% AcquirePlannerLocks                                           ▒
                  - 1,31% CheckCachedPlan                                                  ▒
                       0,71% AcquireExecutorLocks                                          ▒
                    0,60% ResourceOwnerRememberPlanCacheRef                                ▒
            - 6,22% GetTransactionSnapshot                                                 ▒
               - 5,58% GetSnapshotData                                                     ▒
                  + 1,64% LWLockAcquire                                                    ▒
                  + 1,30% LWLockRelease      


This example is worst case, but it shows significant overhead of cached plans and snapshots there.

What do you think about it?

 
> Sounds good. I think this would need to be restricted by operator and
> datatype, since in general you won't know if the datatype functions
> need a snapshot or not. Immutable functions for the operators ought to
> do it, but I think that might not be enough.

It'd indeed not be enough. E.g. enum_lt et al are immutable but access
the catalog.


good to known, thank you

Pavel
 
Greetings,

Andres Freund

Re: plans for PostgreSQL 12

От
Andres Freund
Дата:
Hi,

On 2018-06-05 06:32:31 +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> ./configure --with-libxml --enable-tap-tests --enable-debug --with-perl
> CFLAGS="-ggdb -Og -g3 -fno-omit-frame-pointer"
> 
> [pavel@nemesis postgresql]$ gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 8.1.1 20180502 (Red Hat 8.1.1-1)
> 
> I executed simple script
> 
>  do $$ declare i bigint = 1; s bigint = 0; begin while i <= 100000000 loop
> s := s + i; i := i + 1; end loop;  raise notice '%', s; end $$;
> 
>    7,68%  postmaster  postgres           [.]
> GetSnapshotData                               ▒
>    7,53%  postmaster  plpgsql.so         [.]
> exec_eval_simple_expr                         ▒
>    6,49%  postmaster  postgres           [.]

It seems to me the right fix here isn't a new class of functions, but
rather support for delaying the computation of the snapshot to the point
it's needed.  That'll be far more generically applicable and doesn't
require user interaction.


> ExecInterpExpr                                ▒
>    4,13%  postmaster  postgres           [.]

So we're going to need to optimize this further as well, I've a pending
patch for that, luckily ;)

> LWLockRelease                                 ▒
>    4,12%  postmaster  postgres           [.]

That's also GetSnapshotData()...

Greetings,

Andres Freund


Re: plans for PostgreSQL 12

От
Pavel Stehule
Дата:


2018-06-05 15:00 GMT+02:00 Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>:
Hi,

On 2018-06-05 06:32:31 +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> ./configure --with-libxml --enable-tap-tests --enable-debug --with-perl
> CFLAGS="-ggdb -Og -g3 -fno-omit-frame-pointer"
>
> [pavel@nemesis postgresql]$ gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 8.1.1 20180502 (Red Hat 8.1.1-1)
>
> I executed simple script
>
>  do $$ declare i bigint = 1; s bigint = 0; begin while i <= 100000000 loop
> s := s + i; i := i + 1; end loop;  raise notice '%', s; end $$;
>
>    7,68%  postmaster  postgres           [.]
> GetSnapshotData                               ▒
>    7,53%  postmaster  plpgsql.so         [.]
> exec_eval_simple_expr                         ▒
>    6,49%  postmaster  postgres           [.]

It seems to me the right fix here isn't a new class of functions, but
rather support for delaying the computation of the snapshot to the point
it's needed.  That'll be far more generically applicable and doesn't
require user interaction.

good idea. Can be quick fix.


> ExecInterpExpr                                ▒
>    4,13%  postmaster  postgres           [.]

So we're going to need to optimize this further as well, I've a pending
patch for that, luckily ;)

nice :)


> LWLockRelease                                 ▒
>    4,12%  postmaster  postgres           [.]

That's also GetSnapshotData()...

there are about 10% locking, unlocking plan cache still.

Regards

Pavel


Greetings,

Andres Freund