Upgrade from 10.2 to 10.6 fails if existing database contains a large number of 
tables with similar names.
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                 Key: DERBY-4710
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4710
             Project: Derby
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 10.6.1.0, 10.5.3.0, 10.5.2.0, 10.5.1.1
         Environment: Windows XP SP3, or Windows Server 2003 R2 32-bit. Not 
tested on any other platform.
            Reporter: Ray Gala


Upgrade fails because of quick degradation in performance when trying to 
upgrade our existing Derby DB from version 10.2.2 to the latest build 10.6. 
Problem is that our database contains thousands of tables with the names 
starting from "SURVEY_xxxxx" where xxxxx can be any integer from 1 to 99999. 
Upgrade fails on this tables to the point that one cannot access any of them, 
because apparently it takes a very long time to open them.

We staged a test in order to see how database handles creation of thousands of 
similarly named tables.

Below we will try to describe how the test was conducted.

 

Process

-        Create a new blank database in 10.6

In a loop from 1 to 10000 { although I only managed to get to 1510 over night}

-        Created a program that creates a table called SURVEY_X

-         Inserts 1/2 hour interval data from the range  2006-08-03 15:00:00 to 
2009-01-15 00:00:00. 40,000 records.

 

And this process repeats.

 

Results

-       At the start (10:00 pm) a single cycle of create and insert was taking 
2 seconds i.e  Creation of SURVEY_1

-       Run overnight

-       In the morning 7:00am it had only got to 1510 table and insert 
creations, and was taking  2 minutes for every new table - i.e Creation of 
SURVEY_1510
 

If I change the program (and use it on this database with the current 1510 
tables in it) to create a table called T_SURVEY_X then it goes back to 2 
seconds, although I suspect that if I left it running and we had 1500 tables 
called T_SURVEY_X we would have the same problem.

The symptom is also present in SQLWorkbench/J where it takes 2 seconds to see 
table T_SURVEY_0 but 45 seconds to see SURVEY_1510 and even after it presents 
the data it still seems to lock up etc. 

So this explains why with 6000 tables that we seem to get no response at all.  
As you can see from the enclosed log performance starts really degrading after 
a 1000 tables.


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