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This outlines how to increase the number of shared memory buffers
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supported by BSD/OS. By default, only 4MB of shared memory is supported
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by BSDI.
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Keep in mind that shared memory is not pageable. It is locked in RAM.
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Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Increase SHMMAXPGS by 1024 for every additional 4MB of shared
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memory:
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/sys/sys/shm.h:69:#define SHMMAXPGS 1024 /* max hardware pages...
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The default setting of 1024 is for a maximum of 4MB of shared memory.
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For those running 4.1 or later, just recompile the kernel and reboot.
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For those running earlier releases, there are more steps outlined below.
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Use bpatch to find the sysptsize value for the current kernel.
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This is computed dynamically at bootup.
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$ bpatch -r sysptsize
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0x9 = 9
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Next, change SYSPTSIZE to a hard-coded value. Use the bpatch value,
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plus add 1 for every additional 4MB of shared memory you desire.
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/sys/i386/i386/i386_param.c:28:#define SYSPTSIZE 0 /* dynamically...
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sysptsize can not be changed by sysctl on the fly.
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@ -1055,3 +1055,534 @@ Hiroshi Inoue
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Subject: [HACKERS] Some notes on optimizer cost estimates
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 19:31:32 -0500
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Message-ID: <25387.948414692@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Sender: owner-pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
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Status: OR
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I have been spending some time measuring actual runtimes for various
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sequential-scan and index-scan query plans, and have learned that the
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current Postgres optimizer's cost estimation equations are not very
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close to reality at all.
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Presently we estimate the cost of a sequential scan as
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Nblocks + CPU_PAGE_WEIGHT * Ntuples
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--- that is, the unit of cost is the time to read one disk page,
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and we have a "fudge factor" that relates CPU time per tuple to
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disk time per page. (The default CPU_PAGE_WEIGHT is 0.033, which
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is probably too high for modern hardware --- 0.01 seems like it
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might be a better default, at least for simple queries.) OK,
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it's a simplistic model, but not too unreasonable so far.
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The cost of an index scan is measured in these same terms as
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Nblocks + CPU_PAGE_WEIGHT * Ntuples +
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CPU_INDEX_PAGE_WEIGHT * Nindextuples
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Here Ntuples is the number of tuples selected by the index qual
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condition (typically, it's less than the total table size used in
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sequential-scan estimation). CPU_INDEX_PAGE_WEIGHT essentially
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estimates the cost of scanning an index tuple; by default it's 0.017 or
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half CPU_PAGE_WEIGHT. Nblocks is estimated as the index size plus an
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appropriate fraction of the main table size.
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There are two big problems with this:
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1. Since main-table tuples are visited in index order, we'll be hopping
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around from page to page in the table. The current cost estimation
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method essentially assumes that the buffer cache plus OS disk cache will
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be 100% efficient --- we will never have to read the same page of the
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main table twice in a scan, due to having discarded it between
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references. This of course is unreasonably optimistic. Worst case
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is that we'd fetch a main-table page for each selected tuple, but in
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most cases that'd be unreasonably pessimistic.
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2. The cost of a disk page fetch is estimated at 1.0 unit for both
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sequential and index scans. In reality, sequential access is *much*
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cheaper than the quasi-random accesses performed by an index scan.
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This is partly a matter of physical disk seeks, and partly a matter
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of benefitting (or not) from any read-ahead logic the OS may employ.
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As best I can measure on my hardware, the cost of a nonsequential
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disk read should be estimated at 4 to 5 times the cost of a sequential
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one --- I'm getting numbers like 2.2 msec per disk page for sequential
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scans, and as much as 11 msec per page for index scans. I don't
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know, however, if this ratio is similar enough on other platforms
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to be useful for cost estimating. We could make it a parameter like
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we do for CPU_PAGE_WEIGHT ... but you know and I know that no one
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ever bothers to adjust those numbers in the field ...
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The other effect that needs to be modeled, and currently is not, is the
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"hit rate" of buffer cache. Presumably, this is 100% for tables smaller
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than the cache and drops off as the table size increases --- but I have
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no particular thoughts on the form of the dependency. Does anyone have
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ideas here? The problem is complicated by the fact that we don't really
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know how big the cache is; we know the number of buffers Postgres has,
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but we have no idea how big a disk cache the kernel is keeping. As near
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as I can tell, finding a hit in the kernel disk cache is not a lot more
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expensive than having the page sitting in Postgres' own buffers ---
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certainly it's much much cheaper than a disk read.
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BTW, if you want to do some measurements of your own, try turning on
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PGOPTIONS="-d 2 -te". This will dump a lot of interesting numbers
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into the postmaster log, if your platform supports getrusage().
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regards, tom lane
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Subject: Re. [HACKERS] Some notes on optimizer cost estimates
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Status: OR
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I'm very glad you bring up this cost estimate issue.
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Recent work in database research have argued a more
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detailed disk access cost model should be used for
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large queries especially joins.
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Traditional cost estimate only considers the number of
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disk pages accessed. However a more detailed model
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would consider three parameters: avg. seek, avg. latency
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and avg. page transfer. For old disk, typical values are
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SEEK=9.5 milliseconds, LATENCY=8.3 ms, TRANSFER=2.6ms.
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A sequential continuous reading of a table (assuming
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1000 continuous pages) would cost
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(SEEK+LATENCY+1000*TRANFER=2617.8ms); while quasi-randomly
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reading 200 times with 2 continuous pages/time would
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cost (SEEK+200*LATENCY+400*TRANSFER=2700ms).
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Someone from IBM lab re-studied the traditional
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ad hoc join algorithms (nested, sort-merge, hash) using the detailed cost model
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and found some interesting results.
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>I have been spending some time measuring actual runtimes for various
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>sequential-scan and index-scan query plans, and have learned that the
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>current Postgres optimizer's cost estimation equations are not very
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>close to reality at all.
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One interesting question I'd like to ask is if this non-closeness
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really affects the optimal choice of postgresql's query optimizer.
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And to what degree the effects might be? My point is that
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if the optimizer estimated the cost for sequential-scan is 10 and
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the cost for index-scan is 20 while the actual costs are 10 vs. 40,
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it should be ok because the optimizer would still choose sequential-scan
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as it should.
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>1. Since main-table tuples are visited in index order, we'll be hopping
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>around from page to page in the table.
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I'm not sure about the implementation in postgresql. One thing you might
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be able to do is to first collect all must-read page addresses from
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the index scan and then order them before the actual ordered page fetching.
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It would at least avoid the same page being read twice (not entirely
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true depending on the context (like in join) and algo.)
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>The current cost estimation
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>method essentially assumes that the buffer cache plus OS disk cache will
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>be 100% efficient --- we will never have to read the same page of the
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>main table twice in a scan, due to having discarded it between
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>references. This of course is unreasonably optimistic. Worst case
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>is that we'd fetch a main-table page for each selected tuple, but in
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>most cases that'd be unreasonably pessimistic.
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This is actually the motivation that I asked before if postgresql
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has a raw disk facility. That way we have much control on this cache
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issue. Of course only if we can provide some algo. better than OS
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cache algo. (depending on the context, like large joins), a raw disk
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facility will be worthwhile (besides the recoverability).
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Actually I have another question for you guys which is somehow related
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to this cost estimation issue. You know the difference between OLTP
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and OLAP. My question is how you target postgresql on both kinds
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of applications or just OLTP. From what I know OLTP and OLAP would
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have a big difference in query characteristics and thus
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optimization difference. If postgresql is only targeted on
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OLTP, the above cost estimation issue might not be that
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important. However for OLAP, large tables and large queries are
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common and optimization would be difficult.
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xun
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To: "Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>
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cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Some notes on optimizer cost estimates
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Comments: In-reply-to "Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>
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message dated "Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:44:20 +0900"
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 21:30:41 -0500
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Status: ORr
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"Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp> writes:
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> I've wondered why we cound't analyze database without vacuum.
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> We couldn't run vacuum light-heartedly because it acquires an
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> exclusive lock for the target table.
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There is probably no real good reason, except backwards compatibility,
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why the ANALYZE function (obtaining pg_statistic data) is part of
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VACUUM at all --- it could just as easily be a separate command that
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would only use read access on the database. Bruce is thinking about
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restructuring VACUUM, so maybe now is a good time to think about
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splitting out the ANALYZE code too.
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> In addition,vacuum error occurs with analyze option in most
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> cases AFAIK.
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Still, with current sources? What's the error message? I fixed
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a problem with pg_statistic tuples getting too big...
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regards, tom lane
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Comments: In-reply-to Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
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message dated "Thu, 20 Jan 2000 21:48:57 -0500"
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 22:10:28 -0500
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Status: OR
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
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> It is nice that ANALYZE is done during vacuum. I can't imagine why you
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> would want to do an analyze without adding a vacuum to it. I guess
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> that's why I made them the same command.
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Well, the main bad thing about ANALYZE being part of VACUUM is that
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it adds to the length of time that VACUUM is holding an exclusive
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lock on the table. I think it'd make more sense for it to be a
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separate command.
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I have also been thinking about how to make ANALYZE produce a more
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reliable estimate of the most common value. The three-element list
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that it keeps now is a good low-cost hack, but it really doesn't
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produce a trustworthy answer unless the MCV is pretty darn C (since
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it will never pick up on the MCV at all until there are at least
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two occurrences in three adjacent tuples). The only idea I've come
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up with is to use a larger list, which would be slower and take
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more memory. I think that'd be OK in a separate command, but I
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hesitate to do it inside VACUUM --- VACUUM has its own considerable
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memory requirements, and there's still the issue of not holding down
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an exclusive lock longer than you have to.
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regards, tom lane
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From: "Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>
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To: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Some notes on optimizer cost estimates
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]
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> > "Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp> writes:
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> > > I've wondered why we cound't analyze database without vacuum.
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> > > We couldn't run vacuum light-heartedly because it acquires an
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> > > exclusive lock for the target table.
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> >
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> > There is probably no real good reason, except backwards compatibility,
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> > why the ANALYZE function (obtaining pg_statistic data) is part of
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> > VACUUM at all --- it could just as easily be a separate command that
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> > would only use read access on the database. Bruce is thinking about
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> > restructuring VACUUM, so maybe now is a good time to think about
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> > splitting out the ANALYZE code too.
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>
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> I put it in vacuum because at the time I didn't know how to do such
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> things and vacuum already scanned the table. I just linked on the the
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> scan. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
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>
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> It is nice that ANALYZE is done during vacuum. I can't imagine why you
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> would want to do an analyze without adding a vacuum to it. I guess
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> that's why I made them the same command.
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>
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> If I made them separate commands, both would have to scan the table,
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> though the analyze could do it without the exclusive lock, which would
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> be good.
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>
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The functionality of VACUUM and ANALYZE is quite different.
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I don't prefer to charge VACUUM more than now about analyzing
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database. Probably looong lock,more aborts ....
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Various kind of analysis would be possible by splitting out ANALYZE.
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Regards.
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Hiroshi Inoue
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Inoue@tpf.co.jp
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At 06:19 PM 1/20/00 -0800, Xun Cheng wrote:
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>I'm very glad you bring up this cost estimate issue.
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>Recent work in database research have argued a more
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>detailed disk access cost model should be used for
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>large queries especially joins.
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>Traditional cost estimate only considers the number of
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>disk pages accessed. However a more detailed model
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>would consider three parameters: avg. seek, avg. latency
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>and avg. page transfer. For old disk, typical values are
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>SEEK=9.5 milliseconds, LATENCY=8.3 ms, TRANSFER=2.6ms.
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>A sequential continuous reading of a table (assuming
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>1000 continuous pages) would cost
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>(SEEK+LATENCY+1000*TRANFER=2617.8ms); while quasi-randomly
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>reading 200 times with 2 continuous pages/time would
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>cost (SEEK+200*LATENCY+400*TRANSFER=2700ms).
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>Someone from IBM lab re-studied the traditional
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>ad hoc join algorithms (nested, sort-merge, hash) using the detailed cost
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model
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>and found some interesting results.
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One complication when doing an index scan is that you are
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accessing two separate files (table and index), which can frequently
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be expected to cause an considerable increase in average seek time.
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Oracle and other commercial databases recommend spreading indices and
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tables over several spindles if at all possible in order to minimize
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this effect.
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I suspect it also helps their optimizer make decisions that are
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more consistently good for customers with the largest and most
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complex databases and queries, by making cost estimates more predictably
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reasonable.
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Still...this doesn't help with the question about the effect of the
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filesystem system cache. I wandered around the web for a little bit
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last night, and found one summary of a paper by Osterhout on the
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effect of the Solaris cache on a fileserver serving diskless workstations.
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There was reference to the hierarchy involved (i.e. the local workstation
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cache is faster than the fileserver's cache which has to be read via
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the network which in turn is faster than reading from the fileserver's
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disk). It appears the rule-of-thumb for the cache-hit ratio on reads,
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presumably based on measuring some internal Sun systems, used in their
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calculations was 80%.
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Just a datapoint to think about.
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There's also considerable operating system theory on paging systems
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that might be useful for thinking about trying to estimate the
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Postgres cache/hit ratio. Then again, maybe Postgres could just
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keep count of how many pages of a given table are in the cache at
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any given time? Or simply keep track of the current ratio of hits
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and misses?
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>>I have been spending some time measuring actual runtimes for various
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>>sequential-scan and index-scan query plans, and have learned that the
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>>current Postgres optimizer's cost estimation equations are not very
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>>close to reality at all.
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>One interesting question I'd like to ask is if this non-closeness
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>really affects the optimal choice of postgresql's query optimizer.
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>And to what degree the effects might be? My point is that
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>if the optimizer estimated the cost for sequential-scan is 10 and
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>the cost for index-scan is 20 while the actual costs are 10 vs. 40,
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>it should be ok because the optimizer would still choose sequential-scan
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>as it should.
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This is crucial, of course - if there are only two types of scans
|
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available, what ever heuristic is used only has to be accurate enough
|
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to pick the right one. Once the choice is made, it doesn't really
|
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matter (from the optimizer's POV) just how long it will actually take,
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the time will be spent and presumably it will be shorter than the
|
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alternative.
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How frequently will the optimizer choose wrongly if:
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1. All of the tables and indices were in PG buffer cache or filesystem
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cache? (i.e. fixed access times for both types of scans)
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or
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2. The table's so big that only a small fraction can reside in RAM
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during the scan and join, which means that the non-sequential
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disk access pattern of the indexed scan is much more expensive.
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Also, if you pick sequential scans more frequently based on a presumption
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that index scans are expensive due to increased average seek time, how
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often will this penalize the heavy-duty user that invests in extra
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drives and lots of RAM?
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...
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>>The current cost estimation
|
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>>method essentially assumes that the buffer cache plus OS disk cache will
|
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>>be 100% efficient --- we will never have to read the same page of the
|
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>>main table twice in a scan, due to having discarded it between
|
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>>references. This of course is unreasonably optimistic. Worst case
|
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>>is that we'd fetch a main-table page for each selected tuple, but in
|
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>>most cases that'd be unreasonably pessimistic.
|
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>
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>This is actually the motivation that I asked before if postgresql
|
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>has a raw disk facility. That way we have much control on this cache
|
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>issue. Of course only if we can provide some algo. better than OS
|
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>cache algo. (depending on the context, like large joins), a raw disk
|
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>facility will be worthwhile (besides the recoverability).
|
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|
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Postgres does have control over its buffer cache. The one thing that
|
||||
raw disk I/O would give you is control over where blocks are placed,
|
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meaning you could more accurately model the cost of retrieving them.
|
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So presumably the cache could be tuned to the allocation algorithm
|
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used to place various structures on the disk.
|
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|
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I still wonder just how much gain you get by this approach. Compared,
|
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to, say simply spending $2,000 on a gigabyte of RAM. Heck, PCs even
|
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support a couple gigs of RAM now.
|
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|
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>Actually I have another question for you guys which is somehow related
|
||||
>to this cost estimation issue. You know the difference between OLTP
|
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>and OLAP. My question is how you target postgresql on both kinds
|
||||
>of applications or just OLTP. From what I know OLTP and OLAP would
|
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>have a big difference in query characteristics and thus
|
||||
>optimization difference. If postgresql is only targeted on
|
||||
>OLTP, the above cost estimation issue might not be that
|
||||
>important. However for OLAP, large tables and large queries are
|
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>common and optimization would be difficult.
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@ -1499,3 +1499,43 @@ Or equivalently, vacuum after updating all the rows.
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regards, tom lane
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To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
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cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
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Subject: Re: vacuum timings
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In-reply-to: <200001210543.AAA13592@candle.pha.pa.us>
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References: <200001210543.AAA13592@candle.pha.pa.us>
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Comments: In-reply-to Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
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message dated "Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:43:49 -0500"
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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:51:51 -0500
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Message-ID: <3641.948433911@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Status: ORr
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|
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
|
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> I loaded 10,000,000 rows into CREATE TABLE test (x INTEGER); Table is
|
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> 400MB and index is 160MB.
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|
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> With index on the single in4 column, I got:
|
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> 78 seconds for a vacuum
|
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> 121 seconds for vacuum after deleting a single row
|
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> 662 seconds for vacuum after deleting the entire table
|
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|
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> With no index, I got:
|
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> 43 seconds for a vacuum
|
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> 43 seconds for vacuum after deleting a single row
|
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> 43 seconds for vacuum after deleting the entire table
|
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|
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> I find this quite interesting.
|
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|
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How long does it take to create the index on your setup --- ie,
|
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if vacuum did a drop/create index, would it be competitive?
|
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|
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regards, tom lane
|
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|
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@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
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* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2000, PostgreSQL, Inc
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* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
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*
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* $Id: c.h,v 1.71 2000/06/02 15:57:40 momjian Exp $
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* $Id: c.h,v 1.72 2000/06/02 16:33:17 momjian Exp $
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*
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*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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*/
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* ----------------------------------------------------------------
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*/
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#ifndef __CYGWIN32__
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#ifdef __CYGWIN32__
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#define PG_BINARY 0
|
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#define PG_BINARY_R "rb"
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#define PG_BINARY_W "wb"
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