Re: Performance regarding LIKE searches

On 3/29/2010 12:23 PM, randalls(at)bioinfo(dot)wsu(dot)edu wrote:
> Tom,
>
> We are using perl 5.10 with postgresql DBD. Can you point me in the right direction in terms of unamed and named prepared statements?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Randall Svancara
> Systems Administrator/DBA/Developer
> Main Bioinformatics Laboratory
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Lane"<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
> To: randalls(at)bioinfo(dot)wsu(dot)edu
> Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 10:00:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Performance regarding LIKE searches
>
> randalls(at)bioinfo(dot)wsu(dot)edu writes:
>> I can see I am hitting an index using an index that I created using the varchar_pattern_ops setting. This is very fast and performs like I would expect. However, when my application, GBrowse, access the database, I see in my slow query log this:
>
>> 2010-03-29 09:34:38.083 PDT,"gdr_gbrowse_live","gdr_gbrowse_live",11649,"10.0.0.235:59043",4bb0399d.2d81,8,"SELECT",2010-03-28 22:24:45 PDT,4/118607,0,LOG,00000,"duration: 21467.467 ms execute dbdpg_p25965_9: SELECT f.id,f.object,f.typeid,f.seqid,f.start,f.end,f.strand
>> FROM feature as f, name as n
>> WHERE (n.id=f.id AND lower(n.name) LIKE $1)
>
>> ","parameters: $1 = 'Scaffold:scaffold\_163:1000..1199%'",,,,,,,
>
>> GBrowse is a perl based application. Looking at the duration for this query is around 21 seconds. That is a bit long. Does anyone have any ideas why the query duration is so different?
>
> You're not going to get an index optimization when the LIKE pattern
> isn't a constant (and left-anchored, but this is).
>
> It is possible to get the planner to treat a query parameter as a
> constant (implying a re-plan on each execution instead of having a
> cached plan). I believe what you have to do at the moment is use
> unnamed rather than named prepared statements. The practicality of
> this would depend a lot on your client-side software stack, which
> you didn't mention.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

I'm just going to guess, but DBD::Pg can do "real prepare" or "fake
prepare".

It does "real" by default. Try setting:
$dbh->{pg_server_prepare} = 0;

before you prepare/run that statement and see if it makes a difference.

http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-Pg/Pg.pm#prepare

-Andy