Re: PG9.0 planner difference to 8.3 -> majorly bad performance

On 29 January 2011 09:11, Uwe Schroeder <uwe(at)oss4u(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Maybe someone here can make sense of this.
> I'm trying to upgrade a 8.3 system to a 9.0 system. Usual procedure dump, restore, vac full, reindex.
>
> Both - old and new - run on the same hardware and the postgresql.conf settings are identical.
>
> You'll probably ask for the table definitions, which I'm happy to provide, but I'll omit them here for the sake of a shorter message. Basically everything is identical, data, tables, indexes, harware,
> config.
>
> I should mention that the "tables" are really views - maybe something in the views changed in 9.0.2
>
> I run this query on the 8.3 system:
>
> explain analyze SELECT count(v_bprofile_comments_club16.id)  FROM v_bprofile_comments_club16
> WHERE v_bprofile_comments_club16.profile_id = '5584' AND v_bprofile_comments_club16.approved = true;
>                                                                                              QUERY PLAN
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Aggregate  (cost=6294.37..6294.38 rows=1 width=4) (actual time=269.633..269.635 rows=1 loops=1)
>   ->  Nested Loop  (cost=1889.71..6273.06 rows=8523 width=4) (actual time=156.585..266.325 rows=1641 loops=1)
>         ->  Nested Loop  (cost=1889.71..5858.47 rows=779 width=16) (actual time=156.565..237.216 rows=1641 loops=1)
>               ->  Nested Loop  (cost=1889.71..4488.01 rows=763 width=12) (actual time=156.453..200.174 rows=1641 loops=1)
>                     ->  Index Scan using bprofile_pkey on bprofile m  (cost=0.00..4.27 rows=1 width=4) (actual time=0.140..0.145 rows=1 loops=1)
>                           Index Cond: (id = 5584)
>                     ->  Hash Left Join  (cost=1889.71..4476.11 rows=763 width=16) (actual time=156.302..194.762 rows=1641 loops=1)
>                           Hash Cond: (b.uid = ug.user_id)
>                           ->  Hash Join  (cost=1821.55..4399.44 rows=763 width=20) (actual time=151.372..183.103 rows=1641 loops=1)
>                                 Hash Cond: (c.from_id = b.id)
>                                 ->  Index Scan using bprofile_comments_status_idx on bprofile_comments c  (cost=0.00..2558.77 rows=1531 width=12) (actual time=0.140..21.559 rows=1660 loops=1)
>                                       Index Cond: ((profile_id = 5584) AND (approved = true))
>                                       Filter: approved
>                                 ->  Hash  (cost=1726.15..1726.15 rows=7632 width=8) (actual time=151.131..151.131 rows=14782 loops=1)
>                                       ->  Hash Left Join  (cost=61.50..1726.15 rows=7632 width=8) (actual time=2.622..119.268 rows=14782 loops=1)
>                                             Hash Cond: (b.uid = ugi.user_id)
>                                             Filter: (gi.group_name IS NULL)
>                                             ->  Seq Scan on bprofile b  (cost=0.00..1579.44 rows=15265 width=8) (actual time=0.058..64.033 rows=15265 loops=1)
>                                                   Filter: (NOT deleted)
>                                             ->  Hash  (cost=55.12..55.12 rows=510 width=13) (actual time=2.526..2.526 rows=231 loops=1)
>                                                   ->  Nested Loop  (cost=0.00..55.12 rows=510 width=13) (actual time=0.136..1.909 rows=231 loops=1)
>                                                         ->  Seq Scan on tg_group gi  (cost=0.00..1.07 rows=1 width=13) (actual time=0.041..0.050 rows=1 loops=1)
>                                                               Filter: ((group_name)::text = 'Club16'::text)
>                                                         ->  Index Scan using user_group_group_idx on user_group ugi  (cost=0.00..45.80 rows=660 width=8) (actual time=0.084..1.071 rows=231 loops=1)
>                                                               Index Cond: (ugi.group_id = gi.group_id)
>                           ->  Hash  (cost=55.35..55.35 rows=1025 width=4) (actual time=4.866..4.866 rows=1025 loops=1)
>                                 ->  Index Scan using user_group_group_idx on user_group ug  (cost=0.00..55.35 rows=1025 width=4) (actual time=0.058..2.766 rows=1025 loops=1)
>                                       Index Cond: (group_id = 2)
>               ->  Index Scan using bphotos_profile_primary_idx on bphotos p  (cost=0.00..1.78 rows=1 width=4) (actual time=0.012..0.015 rows=1 loops=1641)
>                     Index Cond: ((p.profile_id = b.id) AND (p.is_primary = true))
>         ->  Index Scan using bphotos_profile_primary_idx on bphotos p  (cost=0.00..0.52 rows=1 width=4) (actual time=0.008..0.011 rows=1 loops=1641)
>               Index Cond: ((p.profile_id = b.id) AND (p.is_primary = true))
>  Total runtime: 270.808 ms
> (33 rows)
>
>
> As you can see, the query performs nicely (for the hardware used).
>
> Now I turn off the 8.3 instance and start the 9.0 instance. Remember, everything is identical. Here the same query again:
>
> explain analyze SELECT count(v_bprofile_comments_club16.id)  FROM v_bprofile_comments_club16
> WHERE v_bprofile_comments_club16.profile_id = '5584' AND v_bprofile_comments_club16.approved = true;
>                                                                                        QUERY PLAN
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Aggregate  (cost=6278.48..6278.49 rows=1 width=4) (actual time=173253.190..173253.192 rows=1 loops=1)
>   ->  Nested Loop  (cost=83.87..6278.45 rows=11 width=4) (actual time=5485.258..173248.693 rows=1851 loops=1)
>         ->  Nested Loop  (cost=83.87..6275.95 rows=1 width=16) (actual time=5485.216..173213.895 rows=1851 loops=1)
>               ->  Nested Loop  (cost=83.87..6269.67 rows=1 width=20) (actual time=5476.690..173168.446 rows=1851 loops=1)
>                     Join Filter: (p.profile_id = c.from_id)
>                     ->  Nested Loop  (cost=83.87..1919.14 rows=1 width=8) (actual time=2.940..971.939 rows=15288 loops=1)
>                           ->  Hash Left Join  (cost=83.87..1918.44 rows=1 width=4) (actual time=2.784..297.862 rows=15292 loops=1)
>                                 Hash Cond: (b.uid = ugi.user_id)
>                                 Filter: (gi.group_name IS NULL)
>                                 ->  Seq Scan on bprofile b  (cost=0.00..1703.49 rows=15846 width=8) (actual time=0.044..166.541 rows=15845 loops=1)
>                                       Filter: (NOT deleted)
>                                 ->  Hash  (cost=75.22..75.22 rows=692 width=13) (actual time=2.667..2.667 rows=261 loops=1)
>                                       Buckets: 1024  Batches: 1  Memory Usage: 8kB
>                                       ->  Nested Loop  (cost=0.00..75.22 rows=692 width=13) (actual time=0.115..2.102 rows=261 loops=1)
>                                             ->  Seq Scan on tg_group gi  (cost=0.00..1.18 rows=1 width=13) (actual time=0.032..0.039 rows=1 loops=1)
>                                                   Filter: ((group_name)::text = 'Club16'::text)
>                                             ->  Index Scan using user_group_group_idx on user_group ugi  (cost=0.00..65.39 rows=692 width=8) (actual time=0.071..1.229 rows=261 loops=1)
>                                                   Index Cond: (ugi.group_id = gi.group_id)
>                           ->  Index Scan using bphotos_profile_primary_idx on bphotos p  (cost=0.00..0.69 rows=1 width=4) (actual time=0.027..0.032 rows=1 loops=15292)
>                                 Index Cond: ((p.profile_id = b.id) AND (p.is_primary = true))
>                     ->  Index Scan using bprofile_comments_status_idx on bprofile_comments c  (cost=0.00..4328.64 rows=1751 width=12) (actual time=0.033..8.097 rows=1872 loops=15288)
>                           Index Cond: ((c.profile_id = 5584) AND (c.approved = true))
>                           Filter: c.approved
>               ->  Index Scan using bprofile_pkey on bprofile m  (cost=0.00..6.27 rows=1 width=4) (actual time=0.015..0.017 rows=1 loops=1851)
>                     Index Cond: (m.id = 5584)
>         ->  Index Scan using bphotos_profile_primary_idx on bphotos p  (cost=0.00..2.48 rows=1 width=4) (actual time=0.009..0.011 rows=1 loops=1851)
>               Index Cond: ((p.profile_id = p.profile_id) AND (p.is_primary = true))
>  Total runtime: 173254.092 ms
> (28 rows)
>
>
> The duration suddenly goes from 270 milliseconds to 173 seconds! The index scan on bprofile_comments_status_idx suddenly shows 15288 loops, where it should be 1 loop just like before. So
> shomehow the 9.0 planner gets it all wrong.
>
> I also noticed that normally I get an iowait with a few percent during such operations (on 8.3), where with pg9 I get 0 iowait and 100% CPU. PG9 has a much smaller memory footprint than 8.3 in
> the same configuration - so this all makes very little sense to me. Maybe someone here has an idea.
>
> Thanks
>
> Uwe

The estimated rows on your 9.0 instance look wildly inaccurate,
suggesting the stats haven't been collected. Have you run a VACUUM
ANALYZE on the whole database?

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