Thread: Needs Suggestion

Needs Suggestion

From
SUBHAM ROY
Date:
Hi,<br />I am currently a student of IIT Bombay. I am doing a project on "Benchmark design". For that I need to measure
theperformance of various queries in databases. <br />I want to know how can we measure the execution time of a query
inPostgres (Explain analyze will not do). Also is there any tools available in Linux for measuring the performance of
queriesof databases such as Oracle 11g, Postgres, etc.<br /> Any suggestions will be very helpful.<br clear="all" /><br
/>--<br />Thank You,<br />Subham Roy,<br />CSE IIT Bombay.<br /><br /> 

Re: Needs Suggestion

From
3dmashup
Date:
Subham,

I would  start with reviewing  Prof Mike Stonebrakers and  Dr Paula 
Hawthorns paper  http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=582095.582097
you can also look  at Perftrack   
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.101.7063&rep=rep1&type=pdf

regards

3dmashUp

On 3/27/2011 6:22 AM, SUBHAM ROY wrote:
> Hi,
> I am currently a student of IIT Bombay. I am doing a project on 
> "Benchmark design". For that I need to measure the performance of 
> various queries in databases.
> I want to know how can we measure the execution time of a query in 
> Postgres (Explain analyze will not do). Also is there any tools 
> available in Linux for measuring the performance of queries of 
> databases such as Oracle 11g, Postgres, etc.
> Any suggestions will be very helpful.
>
> -- 
> Thank You,
> Subham Roy,
> CSE IIT Bombay.
>



Re: Needs Suggestion

From
Gurjeet Singh
Date:
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 9:22 AM, SUBHAM ROY <subham.iem@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I am currently a student of IIT Bombay. I am doing a project on "Benchmark design". For that I need to measure the performance of various queries in databases.
I want to know how can we measure the execution time of a query in Postgres (Explain analyze will not do). Also is there any tools available in Linux for measuring the performance of queries of databases such as Oracle 11g, Postgres, etc.
Any suggestions will be very helpful.

If EXPLAIN ANALYZE is not sufficient for your purpose, then you need  elaborate what exactly are you looking for.

Regards,
--
Gurjeet Singh
EnterpriseDB Corporation
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

Re: Needs Suggestion

From
SUBHAM ROY
Date:
Actually, I want to run some set of queries in postgres on a HUGE data set.
I have to compute the actual execution time for each of those queries. So how can I do that in Postgres ?

Suppose in Oracle following thing can be done :

set timing on;
select stuff from mytab;

Elapsed: 00:00:02.82

Likewise, can I do this in Postgres? "set timing on" does not work in Postgres.
Also is there any free tools available in Linux for doing so?

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Gurjeet Singh <singh.gurjeet@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 9:22 AM, SUBHAM ROY <subham.iem@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I am currently a student of IIT Bombay. I am doing a project on "Benchmark design". For that I need to measure the performance of various queries in databases.
I want to know how can we measure the execution time of a query in Postgres (Explain analyze will not do). Also is there any tools available in Linux for measuring the performance of queries of databases such as Oracle 11g, Postgres, etc.
Any suggestions will be very helpful.

If EXPLAIN ANALYZE is not sufficient for your purpose, then you need  elaborate what exactly are you looking for.

Regards,
--
Gurjeet Singh
EnterpriseDB Corporation
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company




--
Thank You,
Subham Roy,
CSE IIT Bombay.

Re: Needs Suggestion

From
Gurjeet Singh
Date:
In these (Postgres) mailing lists, top-posting is not preferred. See my response below.

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:01 PM, SUBHAM ROY <subham.iem@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Gurjeet Singh <singh.gurjeet@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 9:22 AM, SUBHAM ROY <subham.iem@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I am currently a student of IIT Bombay. I am doing a project on "Benchmark design". For that I need to measure the performance of various queries in databases.
I want to know how can we measure the execution time of a query in Postgres (Explain analyze will not do). Also is there any tools available in Linux for measuring the performance of queries of databases such as Oracle 11g, Postgres, etc.
Any suggestions will be very helpful.

If EXPLAIN ANALYZE is not sufficient for your purpose, then you need  elaborate what exactly are you looking for.

Actually, I want to run some set of queries in postgres on a HUGE data set.
I have to compute the actual execution time for each of those queries. So how can I do that in Postgres ?

Suppose in Oracle following thing can be done :

set timing on;
select stuff from mytab;

Elapsed: 00:00:02.82

Likewise, can I do this in Postgres? "set timing on" does not work in Postgres.
Also is there any free tools available in Linux for doing so?

Postgres' command-line clinet is psql, and it has a meta-command

\timing (or \t for short)

This will show you the query execution time, including the network roundtrip it takes to send the query and receive the response.

If you don't want to account for network round trips, the the server has a GUC parameter called log_min_duration_statement [1]. Either you change it's value in postgresql.conf (so it affects all connections thereafter), or use SQL command

set log_min_duration_statement = 0;

as the first command in all your sessions to log all queries.

psql's \t command results in times being shown right in the psql session, but setting log_min_duration_statement results in query and time taken beong logged in server logs (usually under $PGDATA/pg_log/ or in syslog).

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/runtime-config-logging.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-LOGGING-WHEN

HTH,
--
Gurjeet Singh
EnterpriseDB Corporation
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

Re: [HACKERS] Needs Suggestion

From
Tomáš Pospíšil
Date:
You could use this in psql. Don't know how precise is it, but is enought for initial testing.

postgres=# \timing
Timing is on.
postgres=# create index dx on diplomka using gist(data);
CREATE INDEX
Time: 236752.569 ms


> ------------ Původní zpráva ------------
> Od: SUBHAM ROY <subham.iem@gmail.com>
> Předmět: Re: [HACKERS] Needs Suggestion
> Datum: 27.3.2011 19:02:32
> ----------------------------------------
> Actually, I want to run some set of queries in postgres on a HUGE data set.
> I have to compute the actual execution time for each of those queries. So
> how can I do that in Postgres ?
>
> Suppose in Oracle following thing can be done :
> *
> set timing on;
> select stuff from mytab;
>
> Elapsed: 00:00:02.82
>
> *Likewise, can I do this in Postgres? "set timing on" does not work in
> Postgres.
> Also is there any free tools available in Linux for doing so?
>
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Gurjeet Singh <singh.gurjeet@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 9:22 AM, SUBHAM ROY <subham.iem@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> I am currently a student of IIT Bombay. I am doing a project on "Benchmark
> >> design". For that I need to measure the performance of various queries in
> >> databases.
> >> I want to know how can we measure the execution time of a query in
> >> Postgres (Explain analyze will not do). Also is there any tools available in
> >> Linux for measuring the performance of queries of databases such as Oracle
> >> 11g, Postgres, etc.
> >> Any suggestions will be very helpful.
> >>
> >
> > If EXPLAIN ANALYZE is not sufficient for your purpose, then you need
> > elaborate what exactly are you looking for.
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Gurjeet Singh
> > EnterpriseDB Corporation
> > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Thank You,
> Subham Roy,
> CSE IIT Bombay.
>
>
>


Re: Needs Suggestion

From
Dimitri Fontaine
Date:
SUBHAM ROY <subham.iem@gmail.com> writes:
> I want to know how can we measure the execution time of a query in Postgres
> (Explain analyze will not do). Also is there any tools available in Linux
> for measuring the performance of queries of databases such as Oracle 11g,
> Postgres, etc.
> Any suggestions will be very helpful.

Try pgbench (in contribs) and then Tsung, that could help you run a test
suite and get time reports.  See also pgbench-tools.
 http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/postgresql/pgbench-tools.htm

Regards,
-- 
Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr     PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support