Re: Worse perfomance on 8.2.0 than on 7.4.14 - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Rolf Østvik
Subject Re: Worse perfomance on 8.2.0 than on 7.4.14
Date
Msg-id 20070102124518.1503.qmail@web26301.mail.ukl.yahoo.com
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In response to Re: Worse perfomance on 8.2.0 than on 7.4.14  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Worse perfomance on 8.2.0 than on 7.4.14
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--- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> skrev:

> =?iso-8859-1?q?Rolf=20=D8stvik?=
> <rolfostvik@yahoo.no> writes:
> > First i have some queries to give you a feel of
> size
> > of datasets and plans and times.
>
> You said earlier that essentially all the rows of
> step_result_subset
> have step_parent = 0 ... is that really true?

Not true, but i am sorry if it could be intepreted
that way.
What i tried to say was
 step_result_subset contain 17 179 506 rows
 uut_Result_subset  contain    176 555 rows

There is one entry in step_result_subset with the
condition step_parent = 0 for each entry in
uut_result_subset (there is 176 555 rows in
step_result_subset which have step_parent = 0).

For this (sample) query i have found that if i select
just a little bigger data set (setting start_date_time
to an earlier date) the plan selected by the server
does the best job and gives a more stable execution
time independent of size of data sets. I also have
found that my theories of the best solution has been
wrong.


If you (Tom) still want me to do the following steps
then please tell me.

>  I can
> hardly believe
> that either 7.4 or 8.2 would use an indexscan for
> Q-A if so.
>
> I'd be interested to see the results of
>
> prepare foo(int) as select id from
> step_result_subset sr
>     where uut_result = $1 and step_parent = 0;
> explain analyze execute foo(42);
>
> (use some representative uut_result value instead of
> 42).  If it doesn't
> want to use an indexscan for this, disable plan
> types until it does.
> This would perhaps shed some light on why 8.2
> doesn't want to use a scan
> like that as the inside of a nestloop.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>

Best regards
Rolf Østvik


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