Re: Less than ideal error reporting in pg_stat_statements

On 10/5/15 10:50 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> FWIW, (a) and (b) but not (c) is probably the right description for my
>>> client who has been seeing problems here.
>
>> I think the fact that long IN lists are fingerprinted differently
>> according to the number of elements in the list makes the scenario
>> rather very likely -- not particularly narrow.
>
> That's certainly something worth looking at, but I think it's probably
> more complicated than that. If you just write "WHERE x IN (1,2,3,4)",
> that gets folded to a ScalarArrayOp with a single array constant, which
> the existing code would deal with just fine. We need to identify
> situations where that's not the case but yet we shouldn't distinguish.
>
> In any case, that's just a marginal tweak for one class of query.
> I suspect the right fix for the core problem is the one Peter mentioned
> in passing earlier, namely make it possible to do garbage collection
> without having to slurp the entire file into memory at once. It'd be
> slower, without a doubt, but we could continue to use the existing code
> path unless the file gets really large.

To address what Peter raised up-thread, according to my client the
process that was doing this was generating 10,000 inserts per
transaction and sending them all as a single statement. They tried
cutting it to 1000 inserts and it still had the problem. Each overall
command string could have been megabytes in size. Perhaps it's not worth
supporting that, but if that's the decision then there needs to at least
be better error reporting around this.

I'll try to test Tom's patch next week to see what affect it has on this.
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