Thread: (long) What's the problem?

(long) What's the problem?

From
"David Olbersen"
Date:
Anybody have any ideas about a problem with this query?

urldb2=> EXPLAIN
urldb2-> SELECT
urldb2->   id,
urldb2->   source,
urldb2->   insertedby,
urldb2->   insertedon,
urldb2->   priority
urldb2-> FROM
urldb2->   indexscan
urldb2-> WHERE
urldb2->   lower(
urldb2->     substring(
urldb2->       urlhost( source ), rposition( 'www.', urlhost( source ) ) + 2
urldb2->     )
urldb2->   ) ~ '^q.*'
urldb2-> ORDER BY source;

QUERY PLAN

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sort
(cost=23.50..23.50 rows=3 width=48)  Sort Key: source  ->  Seq Scan on indexscan  (cost=0.00..23.47 rows=3 width=48)
   Filter: (lower("substring"(urlhost(source), (rposition('www.'::text, (urlhost(source))::character varying) + 2))) ~
'^q.*'::text)
(4 rows)

OK, cost=23.50..23.50, should be a quickie. I'll EXPLAIN ANALYZE just to be safe:

urldb2=> EXPLAIN ANALYZE
urldb2-> SELECT
urldb2->   id,
urldb2->   source,
urldb2->   insertedby,
urldb2->   insertedon,
urldb2->   priority
urldb2-> FROM
urldb2->   indexscan
urldb2-> WHERE
urldb2->   lower(
urldb2->     substring(
urldb2->       urlhost( source ), rposition( 'www.', urlhost( source ) ) + 2
urldb2->     )
urldb2->   ) ~ '^q.*'
urldb2-> ORDER BY source;

server closed the connection unexpectedly       This probably means the server terminated abnormally       before or
whileprocessing the request. 
The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed.

Since EXPLAIN ANALYZE runs the query and then analyzes the results I haven't included that in this email because the
erroris the same. 

urlhost() is an immutable custom Pl/Perl function.
rposition() is a volatile custom C function.
indexscan has 614 tuples and only takes up 7 pages.
The load on this machine is zero when I attempt this, and no other processes are trying to use massive amounts of
resources.This is a P3 550 with 512MB of RAM. 

I can provide more information if needed.

Anybody have ideas about the problem?

--------------------------
David Olbersen
iGuard Engineer
11415 West Bernardo Court
San Diego, CA 92127
1-858-676-2277 x2152


Re: (long) What's the problem?

From
Rod Taylor
Date:
> rposition() is a volatile custom C function.

Does the query function as expected when not being EXPLAINed ?

Odds are it's a bug in the custom C function.

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