From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Major performance problem after upgrade from 8.3 to 8.4
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:22:53 -0400
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Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com> writes:
> I know the drawbacks of an EAV design but I don't want to discuss that. I
> want to discuss the major performance decrease of PostgreSQL 8.3
> (performance was ok) to PostgreSQL 8.4 (performance is NOT ok).
> Any further ideas how I can track this down?
> Can someone explain the difference in query plan from an optimizer point
> of view?
Since you haven't shown us the 8.3 plan, it's kind of hard to speculate ;-)
One thing that jumped out at me was that 8.4 appears to be expecting
multiple matches in each of the left-joined tables, which is why the
total rowcount estimate balloons so fast. I rather imagine that you are
expecting at most one match in reality, else the query isn't going to
behave nicely. Is this correct? Are you *sure* you analyzed all these
tables? And if that is how the data looks, where is the actual
performance problem? A bad rowcount estimate isn't in itself going
to kill you.
FWIW, in a similar albeit toy example, I don't see any difference
between the 8.3 and 8.4 plans or cost estimates.
regards, tom lane
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