Re: track_planning causing performance regression - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Pavel Stehule
Subject Re: track_planning causing performance regression
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Msg-id CAFj8pRC-pfdxNhNGTiAACezYfXdpvKbv9n927rjuj9qkMPCFcA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: track_planning causing performance regression  (Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>)
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pá 3. 7. 2020 v 8:57 odesílatel Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com> napsal:


On 2020/07/03 13:05, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> Hi
>
> pá 3. 7. 2020 v 4:39 odesílatel Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com <mailto:masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>> napsal:
>
>
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>     On 2020/07/01 7:37, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
>      > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 6:40 AM Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com <mailto:masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>> wrote:
>      >> Ants and Andres suggested to replace the spinlock used in pgss_store() with
>      >> LWLock. I agreed with them and posted the POC patch doing that. But I think
>      >> the patch is an item for v14. The patch may address the reported performance
>      >> issue, but may cause other performance issues in other workloads. We would
>      >> need to measure how the patch affects the performance in various workloads.
>      >> It seems too late to do that at this stage of v13. Thought?
>      >
>      > I agree that it's too late for v13.
>
>     Thanks for the comment!
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>     So I pushed the patch and changed default of track_planning to off.
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> Maybe there can be documented so enabling this option can have a negative impact on performance.

Yes. What about adding either of the followings into the doc?

     Enabling this parameter may incur a noticeable performance penalty.

or

     Enabling this parameter may incur a noticeable performance penalty,
     especially when a fewer kinds of queries are executed on many
     concurrent connections.

This second variant looks perfect for this case.

Thank you

Pavel




Regards,

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Fujii Masao
Advanced Computing Technology Center
Research and Development Headquarters
NTT DATA CORPORATION

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