On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > I wrote: >> ... PREPARE/EXECUTE work a bit funny though: if you have >> track = all then you get EXECUTE cycles reported against both the >> EXECUTE statement and the underlying PREPARE. This is because when >> PREPARE calls parse_analyze_varparams the post-analyze hook doesn't know >> that this isn't a top-level statement, so it marks the query with a >> queryId. I don't see any way around that part without something like >> what I suggested before. However, this behavior seems to me to be >> considerably less of a POLA violation than the cases involving two >> identical-looking entries for self-contained statements, and it might >> even be thought to be a feature not a bug (since the PREPARE entry will >> accumulate totals for all uses of the prepared statement). So I'm >> satisfied with it for now. > > Actually, there's an easy hack for that too: we can teach the > ProcessUtility hook to do nothing (and in particular not increment the > nesting level) when the statement is an ExecuteStmt. This will result > in the executor time being blamed on the original PREPARE, whether or > not you have enabled tracking of nested statements. That seems like a > substantial win to me, because right now you get a distinct EXECUTE > entry for each textually-different set of parameter values, which seems > pretty useless. This change would make use of PREPARE/EXECUTE behave > very nearly the same in pg_stat_statement as use of protocol-level > prepared statements. About the only downside I can see is that the > cycles expended on evaluating the EXECUTE's parameters will not be > charged to any pg_stat_statement entry. Since those can be expressions, > in principle this might be a non-negligible amount of execution time, > but in practice it hardly seems likely that anyone would care about it. > > Barring objections I'll go fix this, and then this patch can be > considered closed except for possible future tweaking of the > sticky-entry decay rule.
After reading your last commit message, I was wondering if something like this might be possible, so +1 from me. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers