Re: Performance problem on 2 PG versions on same query - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tomas Vondra
Subject Re: Performance problem on 2 PG versions on same query
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Msg-id be4f450aa81ab87a483a289606413530.squirrel@2.emaily.eu
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In response to Re: Performance problem on 2 PG versions on same query  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Dne 5 Listopad 2014, 18:10, Tom Lane napsal(a):
> "Tomas Vondra" <tv@fuzzy.cz> writes:
>> Dne 5 Listopad 2014, 17:31, R??my-Christophe Schermesser napsal(a):
>>> We have 2 instances of PG, one in 9.1.1 and 9.1.14. They have the same
>>> data, schema, PG configuration, and are almost identical machines, same
>>> number of cores and memory, but different cloud provider. The data was
>>> transferred with a pg_dump/pg_restore. We ran VACUUM ANALYSE, ANALYSE,
>>> and
>>> REINDEX on both machines.
>
>> Well, the first observation is that the queries produce different
>> results:
>
> Yeah.  Another reason to not believe that the databases contain identical
> data is here:
>
>>>            ->  Seq Scan on andalertsmatch am  (cost=0.00..71287.87
>>> rows=1064987 width=52) (actual time=0.000..1680.077 rows=1064987
>>> loops=1)
>
>>>         ->  Index Scan using andalertsmatch_a_mid_idx on andalertsmatch
>>> am
>>> (cost=0.00..180798.61 rows=1173762 width=52) (actual
>>> time=0.015..875294.427 rows=1826118122 loops=1)
>
> For some reason there's over 1000 times more rows in andalertsmatch in
> the 9.1.14 installation.  I'm betting on a foulup somewhere in the data
> dump/restore process.

I'd bet that's mostly due to rescans in the merge join ...

Tomas



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