Re: Cached plans and statement generalization

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>,Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Douglas Doole <dougdoole(at)gmail(dot)com>,Konstantin Knizhnik <k(dot)knizhnik(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>,Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>,Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>,PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Cached plans and statement generalization
Date: 2017-05-11 18:32:26
Message-ID: D04FA46E-AD8C-418C-8348-C6DC5C49F18D@anarazel.de
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On May 11, 2017 11:31:02 AM PDT, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
>> Good point. I think we need to do some measurements to see if the
>> parser-only stage is actually significant. I have a hunch that
>> commercial databases have much heavier parsers than we do.
>
>FWIW, gram.y does show up as significant in many of the profiles I
>take.
>I speculate that this is not so much that it eats many CPU cycles, as
>that
>the constant tables are so large as to incur lots of cache misses.
>scan.l
>is not quite as big a deal for some reason, even though it's also
>large.

And that there's a lot of unpredictable branches, leading to a lot if pipeline stalls.

Andres
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