Hello all,
We are trying to debug some slow performance in our production environment
(Amazon RDS, Postgresql 9.6.11), and we’re looking at a particular EXPLAIN node
that seems… weird. This is a very large query involving a number of joins, but
it performs pretty well in our staging environment (which has roughly the same
data set as production, with a few tweaks). However, there is one node in the
EXPLAIN plan that is wildly different:
In the staging environment, we get this:
Index Scan using "programPK" on public.program prog (cost=0.29..0.35 rows=1
width=16) (actual time=0.002..0.003 rows=1 loops=21965)
Output: prog.id, prog.version, prog.active, prog.created_date,
prog.last_modified_date, prog.created_by, prog.last_modified_by,
prog.client_id, prog.scheme_id, prog.name, prog.legacy_group_id,
prog.custom_fields, prog.setup_complete, prog.setup_messages,
prog.legacy_program_type
Index Cond: (prog.id = per.program)
Buffers: shared hit=87860
In the production environment, we get this:
Index Scan using "programPK" on public.program prog (cost=0.29..0.36 rows=1
width=16) (actual time=0.017..4.251 rows=1 loops=21956)
Output: prog.id, prog.version, prog.active, prog.created_date,
prog.last_modified_date, prog.created_by, prog.last_modified_by,
prog.client_id, prog.scheme_id, prog.name, prog.legacy_group_id,
prog.custom_fields, prog.setup_complete, prog.setup_messages,
prog.legacy_program_type
Index Cond: (prog.id = per.program)
Buffers: shared hit=25437716
The tables in both environments are about the same size (18MB) and the indexes
are about the same size (360kb/410kb) – and the shared hits are pretty much the
same on the other nodes of the query between the two environments.
Lastly, if we take out the join to the “program” table, the query performs much
faster in production and the timing between staging and production is similar.
This has happened one time before, and we did a “REINDEX” on the program table
– and that made the problem mostly go away. Now it seems to be back, and I’m
not sure what to make of it.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!
Scott
SCOTT RANKIN
VP, Technology
Motus, LLC
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