Re: App very unresponsive while performing simple update - Mailing list pgsql-performance

>> You should realize this will produce a lot of garbage records and
>> mean you'll
>> have to be running vacuum very frequently. You might consider
>> instead of
>> updating the main table inserting into a separate clickstream
>> table. That
>> trades off not getting instantaneous live totals with isolating the
>> maintenance headache in a single place. That table will grow large
>> but you can
>> prune it at your leisure without impacting query performance on
>> your main
>> tables.

We actually already have a table for this purpose. product_click_history

>
> Actually, you can still get instant results, you just have to hit two
> tables to do it.

Well, not really for our situation. We use the click_count on product
to sort our product listings by popularity. Joining with our
product_click_history to get live counts would be very slow. Some
categories have many tens of thousands of products. Any joins outside
our category_product table tend to be very slow.

We'll probably have to write a process to update the click_count from
querying our product_click_history table.


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On May 31, 2006, at 12:23 AM, Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 07:20:59PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
>> Brendan Duddridge <brendan@clickspace.com> writes:
>>
>>> We do have foreign keys on other tables that reference the
>>> product  table.
>>> Also, there will be updates going on at the same time as this
>>> update. When
>>> anyone clicks on a product details link, we issue an  update
>>> statement to
>>> increment the click_count on the product. e.g.  update product
>>> set click_count
>>> = click_count + 1;
>>
>> You should realize this will produce a lot of garbage records and
>> mean you'll
>> have to be running vacuum very frequently. You might consider
>> instead of
>> updating the main table inserting into a separate clickstream
>> table. That
>> trades off not getting instantaneous live totals with isolating the
>> maintenance headache in a single place. That table will grow large
>> but you can
>> prune it at your leisure without impacting query performance on
>> your main
>> tables.
>
> Actually, you can still get instant results, you just have to hit two
> tables to do it.
>
>> More likely you were blocking on some lock. Until that other query
>> holding
>> that lock tries to commit Postgres won't actually detect a
>> deadlock, it'll
>> just sit waiting until the lock becomes available.
>
> Wow, are you sure that's how it works? I would think it would be
> able to
> detect deadlocks as soon as both processes are waiting on each other's
> locks.
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