Hi
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Jeff Janes <jeff.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:03 AM, didier <did...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> As a matter of fact you get the same slow down after a rollback until >> autovacuum, and if autovacuum can't keep up... >> > > Have you experimentally verified the last part? btree indices have some > special kill-tuple code which should remove aborted tuples from the index > the first time they are encountered, without need for a vacuum. > > Cheers, > > Jeff > > > Yes my bad, it works but there's leftover junk and a vacuum is still needed Running above test with autovacuum off, 1 client and insert 50 000 on postgresql 9.4 qit version. Before insert 2 000 queries/s after insert 80/s after rollback 800/s (back to 2 000/s if commit) after vacuum 2 000 /s again and vacuum output: INFO: vacuuming "public.categories" INFO: scanned index "categories_pkey" to remove 50000 row versions DETAIL: CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.01 sec. INFO: "categories": removed 50000 row versions in 319 pages DETAIL: CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec. INFO: index "categories_pkey" now contains 1000 row versions in 278 pages DETAIL: 50000 index row versions were removed. 272 index pages have been deleted, 136 are currently reusable. CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec. INFO: "categories": found 50000 removable, 1000 nonremovable row versions in 325 out of 325 pages DETAIL: 0 dead row versions cannot be removed yet. There were 0 unused item pointers. 0 pages are entirely empty. CPU 0.00s/0.01u sec elapsed 0.02 sec. INFO: "categories": stopping truncate due to conflicting lock request INFO: vacuuming "pg_toast.pg_toast_16783" INFO: index "pg_toast_16783_index" now contains 0 row versions in 1 pages DETAIL: 0 index row versions were removed. 0 index pages have been deleted, 0 are currently reusable. CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec. INFO: "pg_toast_16783": found 0 removable, 0 nonremovable row versions in 0 out of 0 pages DETAIL: 0 dead row versions cannot be removed yet. There were 0 unused item pointers. 0 pages are entirely empty. CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec. INFO: analyzing "public.categories" INFO: "categories": scanned 325 of 325 pages, containing 1000 live rows and 0 dead rows; 1000 rows in sample, 1000 estimated total rows perf output after rollback but before vacuum 93.36% postgres /var/lib/vz/root/165/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres | |--41.51%-- _bt_checkkeys | | | |--93.03%-- _bt_readpage | | | | | |--97.46%-- _bt_steppage | | | _bt_first | | | btgettuple | | | FunctionCall2Coll | | | index_getnext_tid Didier