is possible cache tupledesc templates in execution plan? significant performance issue, maybe bug?

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: is possible cache tupledesc templates in execution plan? significant performance issue, maybe bug?
Date: 2017-10-08 16:36:23
Message-ID: CAFj8pRAKEmg2tYQNbJSLAfsFo7ofthMPPzTiPUdBx8aGm8q-Mg@mail.gmail.com
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Hi

I am looking why some queries are significantly slower on PostgreSQL than
on Oracle, although there is pretty simple plan. The queries are usually
10x times slower on Postgres than on Oracle.

I migrate old Oracle application to Postgres. There are important two
factors:

1. Often usage of "view" functions (I don't know better terminology) like:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo(_id integer)
RETURNS text AS $$
BEGIN
RETURN (SELECT xx FROM a JOIN b ON a.id = b.id WHERE b.y = _id)
END;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

These functions are used in views

CREATE VIEW xx AS
SELECT a, b, c, foo(id) as d, ...

And sometimes are used in filters

SELECT * FROM xx WHERE d IN NOT NULL;

2. Lot of used tables are pretty wide - 60, 120, .. columns

Now, I am doing profiling, and I see so most time is related to

ExecTypeFromTLInternal(List *targetList, bool hasoid, bool skipjunk)

This function is executed in exec init time - in this case pretty often.
Although there are used few columns from the table, the target list is
build for columns (maybe it is bug)

I have a function

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION
ides_funcs.najdatsplt_cislo_exekuce(mid_najdatsplt bigint)
RETURNS character varying
LANGUAGE plpgsql
STABLE SECURITY DEFINER COST 1000
AS $function$
DECLARE

Result varchar(200);

--mZALOBCISLO NAJZALOBCE.ZALOBCISLO%TYPE;
mAdra varchar(200);

BEGIN
BEGIN
-- there are only tables
select CISLOEXEKUCE INTO STRICT mADRA
from najzalobpr MT, najvzallok A1,
NAJZALOBST A2, NAJZALOBCE A3 where
MT.ID_NAJVZALLOK= A1.ID_NAJVZALLOK AND
A1.ID_NAJZALOBST=A2.ID_NAJZALOBST AND
A2.ID_NAJZALOBCE= A3.ID_NAJZALOBCE AND
MT.ID_NAJDATSPLT = mID_NAJDATSPLT LIMIT 1;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
mADRA := NULL;
END;

Result:=mADRA;
return(Result);
end;
$function$

where is necessary only few columns:

but it processing target list of length

NOTICE: plpgsql_exec_function: ides_funcs.najdatsplt_cislo_exekuce(bigint)
NOTICE: >>len: 38, hasoid: 0, skipjunk: 0
NOTICE: >>len: 21, hasoid: 0, skipjunk: 0
NOTICE: >>len: 1, hasoid: 0, skipjunk: 0
NOTICE: >>len: 65, hasoid: 0, skipjunk: 0
NOTICE: >>len: 1, hasoid: 0, skipjunk: 0
NOTICE: >>len: 93, hasoid: 0, skipjunk: 0
NOTICE: >>len: 1, hasoid: 0, skipjunk: 0
NOTICE: >>len: 1, hasoid: 0, skipjunk: 0

len is length of targetlist

The numbers are related to number of columns of tables najzalobpr,
najvzallok, NAJZALOBST, ..

Because these tables are wide, then the queries are too slow

So, my questions?

1. Why target list is too long in this case. It should be reduced to few
fields?

2. If is not possible to reduce the number of fields of target list, is
possible to store tupledesc template to plan?

Without this issue, the Postgres has same speed or is faster than Ora.

I can send a schema by some private channel.

Regards

Pavel

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