Re: Query hangs (and then timeout) after using COPY to import data - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: Query hangs (and then timeout) after using COPY to import data
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Msg-id 98a7e782-96bc-4c55-a919-bda0d5d35f87@aklaver.com
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In response to Query hangs (and then timeout) after using COPY to import data  (<steott@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Query hangs (and then timeout) after using COPY to import data
RE: Query hangs (and then timeout) after using COPY to import data
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On 2/11/24 13:37, steott@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I’m new to PostgreSQL. I’m trying to migrate an app from SqlServer to 
> Postgres (it’s written in C# and uses Npgsql)
> 
> I’ve tried with Postgres 16.1 and 16.2 on Windows Server 2019.
> 
> This app used SqlServer’s Bulk Insert to import some tables (about 50 
> tables) from another database, I replaced it with Postgres’ COPY 
> function: this part works correctly.
> 
> After the import, I execute sequentially (not in parallel) some queries 
> in these tables, to update some data and to make some validations.
> 
> At some point, systematically, one of these queries hangs, and after 10 
> minutes (the CommandTimeout that I set) it throws this exception:
> 
> Exception while reading from stream ---> System.TimeoutException: 
> Timeout during reading attempt
> 
>     at Npgsql.Internal.NpgsqlConnector
> 
> The query is this one:
> 
> 
> SELECT Id FROM Item
> 
> WHERE Id NOT IN (
> 
> SELECT ItemId FROM ItemUom)
> 
> LIMIT 100
> 
> The same query, executed from pgAdmin, returns the result in less than a 
> second (even if it’s executed while the query from my app is running).
> 
> (actually the result are 0 record, but it’s correct: the query it’s just 
> a validation that there are no records in that query)
> 
> While the query is running from my app, I noticed that the CPU goes 
> beyond 95%, even up to 100%, due to 3 postgres.exe processes.
> 
> The RAM usage is less than 70%.
> 
> In pgAdmin I’ve executed a query to list the running queries, and I can 
> see that one.
> 
> My issue seems to be very similar to this one:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77195107/npgsql-timeout-during-reading-attempt
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77195107/npgsql-timeout-during-reading-attempt>
> but I didn’t understand how that guy solved the problem.
> 
> If I import less tables from the external database, the query doesn’t 
> hang and runs correctly, so this make me think about some resources that 
> could “finish”, but I haven’t understood which one (for example the 
> connections used to import the tables and all the commands and 
> datareader used to execute the queries seem disposed correctly).
> 
> I don’t know if it could be due to some Postgres parameter.
> 
> Do you have any suggestions to solve this problem?
> 

Run ANALYZE on the tables/database.

See:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-analyze.html


-- 
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com




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