From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
To: Lars Aksel Opsahl <Lars.Opsahl@nibio.no>
Cc: pgsql-performance@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: slow "select count(*) from information_schema.tables;" in some cases
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2022 11:09:27 -0600
Message-ID: <20220207170927.GF31460@telsasoft.com> (raw)
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On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 04:56:35PM +0000, Lars Aksel Opsahl wrote:
> Sometimes simple sql's like this takes a very long time "select count(*) from information_schema.tables;"
>
> Other sql's not including system tables may work ok but login also takes a very long time.
>
> The CPU load on the server is around 25%. There is no iowait.
>
> This happens typically when we are running many functions in parallel creating many temp tables and unlogged tables I think.
>
> Here is a slow one:
> https://explain.depesz.com/s/tUt5
>
> and here is fast one :
> https://explain.depesz.com/s/yYG4
The only difference is that this is sometimes many times slower.
Finalize Aggregate (cost=42021.15..42021.16 rows=1 width=8) (actual time=50602.755..117201.768 rows=1 loops=1)
-> Gather (cost=42020.94..42021.15 rows=2 width=8) (actual time=130.527..117201.754 rows=3 loops=1)
Workers Planned: 2
Workers Launched: 2
> Here are my settings (the server has around 256 GB og memory) :
What version of postgres ? What OS/version ?
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Query_Questions
Are there any server logs around that time ?
Or session logs for the slow query ?
Is it because the table creation is locking (rows of) various system catalogs ?
I'm not sure if it'd be a single, long delay that you could see easily with
log_lock_waits, or a large number of small delays, maybe depending on whether
your table creation is done within a transaction.
--
Justin
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