JDBC/Stored procedure performance issue - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Hi All,

I am experiencing a strange performance issue with Postgresql (7.4.19)
+ PostGIS. (I posted to the PostGIS list but got no response, so am
trying here.)

We have a table of entries that contains latitude, longitude values
and I have a simple query to retrieve all entries within a specified 2-
D box.

The latitude, longitude are stored as decimals, plus a trigger stores
the corresponding geometry object.

When I do an EXPLAIN ANALYZE on one query that returns 3261 rows, it
executes in a reasonable 159ms:

EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT DISTINCT latitude, longitude, color FROM
NewEntries
     WHERE groupid = 57925 AND
               location @ SetSRID(MakeBox2D(SetSRID(MakePoint(-123.75,
36.597889), 4326),
                                            SetSRID(MakePoint(-118.125,
40.979898), 4326)), 4326);


Unique  (cost=23.73..23.74 rows=1 width=30) (actual
time=143.648..156.081 rows=3261 loops=1)
   ->  Sort  (cost=23.73..23.73 rows=1 width=30) (actual
time=143.640..146.214 rows=3369 loops=1)
         Sort Key: latitude, longitude, color
         ->  Index Scan using group_index on newentries
(cost=0.00..23.72 rows=1 width=30) (actual time=0.184..109.346
rows=3369 loops=1)
               Index Cond: (groupid = 57925)
               Filter: ("location" @

'0103000020E610000001000000050000000000000000F05EC0000000A0874C42400000000000F05EC0000000406D7D44400000000000885DC0000000406D7D44400000000000885DC0000000A0874C42400000000000F05EC0000000A0874C4240

'::geometry)
Total runtime: 159.430 ms
(7 rows)

If I issue the same query over JDBC or use a PSQL stored procedure, it
takes over 3000 ms, which, of course is unacceptable!

Function Scan on gettilelocations  (cost=0.00..12.50 rows=1000
width=30) (actual time=3311.368..3319.265 rows=3261 loops=1)
Total runtime: 3322.529 ms
(2 rows)

The function gettilelocations is defined as:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION GetTileLocations(Integer, real, real, real,
real)
    RETURNS SETOF TileLocation
AS
'
    DECLARE
        R TileLocation;
    BEGIN
        FOR R IN SELECT DISTINCT latitude, longitude, color FROM
NewEntries
            WHERE groupid = $1 AND
                location @ SetSRID(MakeBox2D(SetSRID(MakePoint($2,
$3), 4326),
                                     SetSRID(MakePoint($4, $5), 4326)),
                   4326) LOOP
            RETURN NEXT R;
        END LOOP;
    RETURN;
    END;
'
LANGUAGE plpgsql STABLE RETURNS NULL ON NULL INPUT;

Can someone please tell me what we are doing wrong? Any help would be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Claire

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  Claire McLister                        mclister@zeesource.net
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