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* SQL report
@ 2009-07-30 02:48 wkipjohn@gmail.com
  2009-07-30 15:16 ` Re: SQL report Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>
  2009-07-30 16:41 ` Re: SQL report Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread

From: wkipjohn@gmail.com @ 2009-07-30 02:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-sql

I have the following senario.

I have a tracking system. The system will record the status of an object  
regularly, all the status records are stored in one table. And it will keep  
a history of maximum 1000 status record for each object it tracks. The  
maximum objects the system will track is 100,000. Which means I will  
potentially have a table size of 100 million records.

I have to generate a report on the latest status of all objects being  
tracked at a particular point in time, and also I have to allow user to  
sort and filter on different columes in the status record displayed in the  
report.

The following is a brief description in the status record (they are not  
actual code)

ObjectRecord(
objectId bigint PrimaryKey
desc varchar
)

StatusRecord (
id bigint PrimaryKey
objectId bigint indexed
datetime bigint indexed
capacity double
reliability double
efficiency double
)

I have tried to do the following, it works very well with around 20,000  
objects. (The query return in less than 10s) But when I have 100,000  
objects it becomes very very slow. (I don't even have patience to wait for  
it to return.... I kill it after 30 mins)

select * from statusrecord s1 INNER JOIN ( SELECT objectId , MAX(datetime)  
AS msdt FROM statusrecord WHERE startDatetime <= 1233897527657 GROUP BY  
objectId ) AS s2 ON ( s1.objectId = s2.objectId AND s1.datetime = s2.msdt )  
where ( capacity < 10.0 ) order by s1.datetime DESC, s1.objectId DESC;

I did try to write a store procedure like below, for 100,000 objects and  
1000 status records / object, it returns in around 30 mins.

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION getStatus(pitvalue BIGINT) RETURNS SETOF  
statusrecord AS $BODY$
DECLARE
id VARCHAR;
status statusrecord%ROWTYPE;
BEGIN
FOR object IN SELECT * FROM objectRecord
LOOP
EXECUTE 'SELECT * FROM statusrecord WHERE objectId = ' ||  
quote_literal(object.objectId) ||
' AND datetime <= ' || quote_literal(pitvalue) || ' ORDER BY datetime DESC'
INTO status;
IF FOUND THEN
RETURN NEXT status;
END IF;
END LOOP;
RETURN;
END
$BODY$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

Just wanna to know if anyone have a different approach to my senario.  
Thanks alot.

John

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* Re: SQL report
  2009-07-30 02:48 SQL report wkipjohn@gmail.com
@ 2009-07-30 15:16 ` Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>
  2009-07-31 03:55   ` Re: SQL report wkipjohn@gmail.com
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread

From: Rob Sargent @ 2009-07-30 15:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: wkipjohn@gmail.com; +Cc: pgsql-sql

I would be curious to know the performance curve for let's say 20K, 40K 
, 60K, 80K, 100K records.  And what sort of indexing you have, whether 
or not it's clustered, re-built and so on.

One could envision partitioning the status table such that recent 
records were grouped together (on the assumption that they will be most 
frequently "reported").

wkipjohn@gmail.com wrote:
> I have the following senario.
>
> I have a tracking system. The system will record the status of an 
> object regularly, all the status records are stored in one table. And 
> it will keep a history of maximum 1000 status record for each object 
> it tracks. The maximum objects the system will track is 100,000. Which 
> means I will potentially have a table size of 100 million records.
>
> I have to generate a report on the latest status of all objects being 
> tracked at a particular point in time, and also I have to allow user 
> to sort and filter on different columes in the status record displayed 
> in the report.
>
> The following is a brief description in the status record (they are 
> not actual code)
>
> ObjectRecord(
> objectId bigint PrimaryKey
> desc varchar
> )
>
> StatusRecord (
> id bigint PrimaryKey
> objectId bigint indexed
> datetime bigint indexed
> capacity double
> reliability double
> efficiency double
> )
>
> I have tried to do the following, it works very well with around 
> 20,000 objects. (The query return in less than 10s) But when I have 
> 100,000 objects it becomes very very slow. (I don't even have patience 
> to wait for it to return.... I kill it after 30 mins)
>
> select * from statusrecord s1 INNER JOIN ( SELECT objectId , 
> MAX(datetime) AS msdt FROM statusrecord WHERE startDatetime <= 
> 1233897527657 GROUP BY objectId ) AS s2 ON ( s1.objectId = s2.objectId 
> AND s1.datetime = s2.msdt ) where ( capacity < 10.0 ) order by 
> s1.datetime DESC, s1.objectId DESC;
>
> I did try to write a store procedure like below, for 100,000 objects 
> and 1000 status records / object, it returns in around 30 mins.
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION getStatus(pitvalue BIGINT) RETURNS SETOF 
> statusrecord AS $BODY$
> DECLARE
> id VARCHAR;
> status statusrecord%ROWTYPE;
> BEGIN
> FOR object IN SELECT * FROM objectRecord
> LOOP
> EXECUTE 'SELECT * FROM statusrecord WHERE objectId = ' || 
> quote_literal(object.objectId) ||
> ' AND datetime <= ' || quote_literal(pitvalue) || ' ORDER BY datetime 
> DESC'
> INTO status;
> IF FOUND THEN
> RETURN NEXT status;
> END IF;
> END LOOP;
> RETURN;
> END
> $BODY$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
>
> Just wanna to know if anyone have a different approach to my senario. 
> Thanks alot.
>
> John 



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* Re: SQL report
  2009-07-30 02:48 SQL report wkipjohn@gmail.com
  2009-07-30 15:16 ` Re: SQL report Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>
@ 2009-07-31 03:55   ` wkipjohn@gmail.com
  2009-07-31 15:50     ` Re: SQL report Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread

From: wkipjohn@gmail.com @ 2009-07-31 03:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>; wkipjohn@gmail.com; +Cc: pgsql-sql

Hi Rob,

I have default B-Tree indexes created for each of the indexed columes and  
primary key columes. (No multiple columes indexe or NULL FIRST or  
DESC/ASC). I am using PostgreSQL 8.3 with the auto vacuum daemon on. I  
assume analyse will be automatically run to collect statistics for use by  
the planner and there is no maintainance for B-tree indexes once it is  
created. (Please point me out if I am wrong about this)

I will probably try to partition the status table to group more recent  
status records together to minimize the dataset I am querying.

Thx
John


On Jul 31, 2009 1:16am, Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would be curious to know the performance curve for let's say 20K, 40K ,  
> 60K, 80K, 100K records. And what sort of indexing you have, whether or  
> not it's clustered, re-built and so on.



> One could envision partitioning the status table such that recent records  
> were grouped together (on the assumption that they will be most  
> frequently "reported").



> wkipjohn@gmail.com wrote:


> I have the following senario.



> I have a tracking system. The system will record the status of an object  
> regularly, all the status records are stored in one table. And it will  
> keep a history of maximum 1000 status record for each object it tracks.  
> The maximum objects the system will track is 100,000. Which means I will  
> potentially have a table size of 100 million records.



> I have to generate a report on the latest status of all objects being  
> tracked at a particular point in time, and also I have to allow user to  
> sort and filter on different columes in the status record displayed in  
> the report.



> The following is a brief description in the status record (they are not  
> actual code)



> ObjectRecord(

> objectId bigint PrimaryKey

> desc varchar

> )



> StatusRecord (

> id bigint PrimaryKey

> objectId bigint indexed

> datetime bigint indexed

> capacity double

> reliability double

> efficiency double

> )



> I have tried to do the following, it works very well with around 20,000  
> objects. (The query return in less than 10s) But when I have 100,000  
> objects it becomes very very slow. (I don't even have patience to wait  
> for it to return.... I kill it after 30 mins)



> select * from statusrecord s1 INNER JOIN ( SELECT objectId ,  
> MAX(datetime) AS msdt FROM statusrecord WHERE startDatetime


> I did try to write a store procedure like below, for 100,000 objects and  
> 1000 status records / object, it returns in around 30 mins.



> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION getStatus(pitvalue BIGINT) RETURNS SETOF  
> statusrecord AS $BODY$

> DECLARE

> id VARCHAR;

> status statusrecord%ROWTYPE;

> BEGIN

> FOR object IN SELECT * FROM objectRecord

> LOOP

> EXECUTE 'SELECT * FROM statusrecord WHERE objectId = ' ||  
> quote_literal(object.objectId) ||

> ' AND datetime
> INTO status;

> IF FOUND THEN

> RETURN NEXT status;

> END IF;

> END LOOP;

> RETURN;

> END

> $BODY$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;



> Just wanna to know if anyone have a different approach to my senario.  
> Thanks alot.



> John

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* Re: SQL report
  2009-07-30 02:48 SQL report wkipjohn@gmail.com
  2009-07-30 15:16 ` Re: SQL report Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>
  2009-07-31 03:55   ` Re: SQL report wkipjohn@gmail.com
@ 2009-07-31 15:50     ` Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread

From: Rob Sargent @ 2009-07-31 15:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: wkipjohn@gmail.com; +Cc: pgsql-sql

Did you look at the query plans for the various record counts?  That 
might show which index is missing or misinformed :).  I wonder if 
clustering the status table on objectid would help?  This does then 
require maintenance so you might only load it at 75%. 

wkipjohn@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> I have default B-Tree indexes created for each of the indexed columes 
> and primary key columes. (No multiple columes indexe or NULL FIRST or 
> DESC/ASC). I am using PostgreSQL 8.3 with the auto vacuum daemon on. I 
> assume analyse will be automatically run to collect statistics for use 
> by the planner and there is no maintainance for B-tree indexes once it 
> is created. (Please point me out if I am wrong about this)
>
> I will probably try to partition the status table to group more recent 
> status records together to minimize the dataset I am querying.
>
> Thx
> John
>
>
> On Jul 31, 2009 1:16am, Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would be curious to know the performance curve for let's say 20K, 
> 40K , 60K, 80K, 100K records. And what sort of indexing you have, 
> whether or not it's clustered, re-built and so on.
> >
> >
> >
> > One could envision partitioning the status table such that recent 
> records were grouped together (on the assumption that they will be 
> most frequently "reported").
> >
> >
> >
> > wkipjohn@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> >
> > I have the following senario.
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a tracking system. The system will record the status of an 
> object regularly, all the status records are stored in one table. And 
> it will keep a history of maximum 1000 status record for each object 
> it tracks. The maximum objects the system will track is 100,000. Which 
> means I will potentially have a table size of 100 million records.
> >
> >
> >
> > I have to generate a report on the latest status of all objects 
> being tracked at a particular point in time, and also I have to allow 
> user to sort and filter on different columes in the status record 
> displayed in the report.
> >
> >
> >
> > The following is a brief description in the status record (they are 
> not actual code)
> >
> >
> >
> > ObjectRecord(
> >
> > objectId bigint PrimaryKey
> >
> > desc varchar
> >
> > )
> >
> >
> >
> > StatusRecord (
> >
> > id bigint PrimaryKey
> >
> > objectId bigint indexed
> >
> > datetime bigint indexed
> >
> > capacity double
> >
> > reliability double
> >
> > efficiency double
> >
> > )
> >
> >
> >
> > I have tried to do the following, it works very well with around 
> 20,000 objects. (The query return in less than 10s) But when I have 
> 100,000 objects it becomes very very slow. (I don't even have patience 
> to wait for it to return.... I kill it after 30 mins)
> >
> >
> >
> > select * from statusrecord s1 INNER JOIN ( SELECT objectId , 
> MAX(datetime) AS msdt FROM statusrecord WHERE startDatetime
> >
> >
> > I did try to write a store procedure like below, for 100,000 objects 
> and 1000 status records / object, it returns in around 30 mins.
> >
> >
> >
> > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION getStatus(pitvalue BIGINT) RETURNS SETOF 
> statusrecord AS $BODY$
> >
> > DECLARE
> >
> > id VARCHAR;
> >
> > status statusrecord%ROWTYPE;
> >
> > BEGIN
> >
> > FOR object IN SELECT * FROM objectRecord
> >
> > LOOP
> >
> > EXECUTE 'SELECT * FROM statusrecord WHERE objectId = ' || 
> quote_literal(object.objectId) ||
> >
> > ' AND datetime
> > INTO status;
> >
> > IF FOUND THEN
> >
> > RETURN NEXT status;
> >
> > END IF;
> >
> > END LOOP;
> >
> > RETURN;
> >
> > END
> >
> > $BODY$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
> >
> >
> >
> > Just wanna to know if anyone have a different approach to my 
> senario. Thanks alot.
> >
> >
> >
> > John
> >
> > 



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* Re: SQL report
  2009-07-30 02:48 SQL report wkipjohn@gmail.com
@ 2009-07-30 16:41 ` Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>
  2009-07-31 00:08   ` Re: SQL report wkipjohn@gmail.com
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread

From: Steve Crawford @ 2009-07-30 16:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: wkipjohn@gmail.com; +Cc: pgsql-sql

wkipjohn@gmail.com wrote:
> I have the following senario.
>
> I have a tracking system. The system will record the status of an 
> object regularly, all the status records are stored in one table. And 
> it will keep a history of maximum 1000 status record for each object 
> it tracks. The maximum objects the system will track is 100,000. Which 
> means I will potentially have a table size of 100 million records.
>
> I have to generate a report on the latest status of all objects being 
> tracked at a particular point in time, and also I have to allow user 
> to sort and filter on different columes in the status record displayed 
> in the report.
...
>
> Just wanna to know if anyone have a different approach to my senario. 
> Thanks alot.
>
Not knowing all the details of your system, here are some things you 
could experiment with:

1. Add a "latest record id" field in your object table (automatically 
updated with a trigger) that would allow you to do a simple join with 
the tracking table. I suspect that such a join will be far faster than 
calculating "max" 100,000 times at the expense of a slightly larger main 
table.

2. Add a "current record flag" in the status table that simply flags the 
most recent record for each object (again, use triggers to keep the flag 
appropriately updated). This would also eliminate the need for the "max" 
subquery. You could even create a partial index filtering on the 
"current record flag" which could speed things up if the reporting query 
is written correctly.

3. Partition the table into a "current status table" and "historical 
status table" (each inheriting from the main table). Use a trigger so 
that anytime a new status record in added, the old "current" record is 
moved from the "current" to the "historical" table and the new one added 
to the "current" table. The latest status report will only need a simple 
join on the "current" table with a max size of 100,000 rather than a 
more complex query over a 100,000,000 record table.

Cheers,
Steve




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* Re: SQL report
  2009-07-30 02:48 SQL report wkipjohn@gmail.com
  2009-07-30 16:41 ` Re: SQL report Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>
@ 2009-07-31 00:08   ` wkipjohn@gmail.com
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread

From: wkipjohn@gmail.com @ 2009-07-31 00:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>; wkipjohn@gmail.com; +Cc: pgsql-sql

Hi Steve,

Thanks for you suggestions. In my senario, what is current depends on  
users. Because if user wants a status report at 00:00 1st Jan 2009, then  
00:00 1st Jan 2009 is current. So it is not possible to flag any records as  
current unless the user tells us what is current.

cheers
John

On Jul 31, 2009 2:41am, Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>  
wrote:
> wkipjohn@gmail.com wrote:


> I have the following senario.



> I have a tracking system. The system will record the status of an object  
> regularly, all the status records are stored in one table. And it will  
> keep a history of maximum 1000 status record for each object it tracks.  
> The maximum objects the system will track is 100,000. Which means I will  
> potentially have a table size of 100 million records.



> I have to generate a report on the latest status of all objects being  
> tracked at a particular point in time, and also I have to allow user to  
> sort and filter on different columes in the status record displayed in  
> the report.


> ...




> Just wanna to know if anyone have a different approach to my senario.  
> Thanks alot.




> Not knowing all the details of your system, here are some things you  
> could experiment with:



> 1. Add a "latest record id" field in your object table (automatically  
> updated with a trigger) that would allow you to do a simple join with the  
> tracking table. I suspect that such a join will be far faster than  
> calculating "max" 100,000 times at the expense of a slightly larger main  
> table.



> 2. Add a "current record flag" in the status table that simply flags the  
> most recent record for each object (again, use triggers to keep the flag  
> appropriately updated). This would also eliminate the need for the "max"  
> subquery. You could even create a partial index filtering on the "current  
> record flag" which could speed things up if the reporting query is  
> written correctly.



> 3. Partition the table into a "current status table" and "historical  
> status table" (each inheriting from the main table). Use a trigger so  
> that anytime a new status record in added, the old "current" record is  
> moved from the "current" to the "historical" table and the new one added  
> to the "current" table. The latest status report will only need a simple  
> join on the "current" table with a max size of 100,000 rather than a more  
> complex query over a 100,000,000 record table.



> Cheers,

> Steve

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