Re: Slow planning time for simple query - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jerry Sievers
Subject Re: Slow planning time for simple query
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Msg-id 87efhjimx7.fsf@jsievers.enova.com
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In response to Re: Slow planning time for simple query  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Slow planning time for simple query  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 2018-06-06 18:59 GMT+02:00 Jeremy Finzel <finzelj@gmail.com>:
>>> We have an odd scenario on one of our OLTP systems, which behaves the same
>>> way on a streamer, of a 700-1000ms planning time for a query like this:
>>> SELECT *
>>> FROM table1
>>> WHERE  source_id IN (SELECT id FROM table2 WHERE customer_id = $1);
>
>> more times I seen similar issue based on bloated indexes on table - pg in
>> planning time detect min max from possible indexes
>
> Oh, hmm, yeah it could be ye olde get_actual_variable_range() issue.
> When this happens, are there perhaps a lot of recently-dead rows at either
> extreme of the range of table1.source_id or table2.id?

We noticed the cluster of interest had a rogue physical rep slot holding
71k WAL segments.

Dropping same slot seemed to correlate with the problem going away.

Does that sound like a plausible explanation for the observed slow
planning times?

Thx



> We made a fix last year to improve that:
> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git&a=commitdiff&h=3ca930fc3
> but it wasn't back-patched.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
>

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