On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Artur Zając <azajac@ang.com.pl> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I have PostgreSQL 9.0.12 on Windows.
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> I have some simple function:
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> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION sfunction() RETURNS BOOL AS
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> $BODY$
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> DECLARE
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> q TEXT;
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> r RECORD;
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> BEGIN
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> q='SELECT 1 from tb_klient LIMIT 0';
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> FOR r IN EXECUTE q
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> LOOP
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> END LOOP;
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> RETURN NULL;
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> RETURN NULL;
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> END;
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> $BODY$
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> LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
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> And some simple Query:
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> explain analyze SELECT sfunction() AS value
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> FROM (
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> SELECT 5604913 AS id ,5666 AS idtowmag
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> ) AS c
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> LEFT OUTER JOIN tg_tm AS tm ON (tm.ttm_idtowmag=c.idtowmag);
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> When I run this query explain analyze is:
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> Subquery Scan on a (cost=0.00..0.27 rows=1 width=8) (actual
> time=24.041..24.042 rows=1 loops=1)
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> -> Result (cost=0.00..0.01 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=0.001..0.002
> rows=1 loops=1)
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> "Total runtime: 24.068 ms"
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> But when I change:
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> 1. Table tb_klient to some other table (but not any other – queries
> with some tables are still slow) or
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> 2. “FOR r IN EXECUTE q”
> change to
> “FOR r IN SELECT 1 from tb_klient LIMIT 0” or
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> 3. add “LEFT OUTER JOIN tb_klient AS kl ON
> (kl.k_idklienta=c.idtowmag)” to query
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> Explain analyze of query is:
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> "Subquery Scan on a (cost=0.00..0.27 rows=1 width=8) (actual
> time=1.868..1.869 rows=1 loops=1)"
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> " -> Result (cost=0.00..0.01 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=0.002..0.002
> rows=1 loops=1)"
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> "Total runtime: 1.894 ms"
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> Explain analyze of “SELECT 1 from tb_klient LIMIT 0” is:
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> "Limit (cost=0.00..0.13 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=0.001..0.001 rows=0
> loops=1)"
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> " -> Seq Scan on tb_klient (cost=0.00..854.23 rows=6823 width=0) (never
> executed)"
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> "Total runtime: 0.025 ms"
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> tb_klient has 8200 rows and 77 cols.
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> Why speed of executing (or planning) some very simple query from string in
> pl/pgsql is dependent from whole query or why “FOR r IN EXECUTE q” is
> significally slower from “FOR r IN query”?
kinda hard to follow you here. but, it looks like you are adding LIMIT
0 which makes performance comparison unfair?
merlin
