Re: [PERFORM] Query much slower when run from postgres function

2009-03-16 Thread Віталій Тимчишин
2009/3/14 decibel > On Mar 10, 2009, at 12:20 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > >> f...@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) writes: >> >>> For a prepared statement, could the planner produce *several* plans, >>> if it guesses great sensitivity to the parameter values? Then it >>> could choose amongst them at run

Re: [PERFORM] Query much slower when run from postgres function

2009-03-14 Thread decibel
On Mar 10, 2009, at 12:20 PM, Tom Lane wrote: f...@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) writes: For a prepared statement, could the planner produce *several* plans, if it guesses great sensitivity to the parameter values? Then it could choose amongst them at run time. We've discussed that in the pas

Re: [PERFORM] Query much slower when run from postgres function

2009-03-14 Thread decibel
On Mar 9, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Mario Splivalo wrote: Now, as I was explained on pg-jdbc mailinglist, that 'SET enable_seqscan TO false' affects all queries on that persistent connection from tomcat, and It's not good solution. So I wanted to post here to ask what other options do I have. FWI

Re: [PERFORM] Query much slower when run from postgres function

2009-03-10 Thread Tom Lane
f...@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) writes: > For a prepared statement, could the planner produce *several* plans, > if it guesses great sensitivity to the parameter values? Then it > could choose amongst them at run time. We've discussed that in the past. "Choose at runtime" is a bit more easily

Re: [PERFORM] Query much slower when run from postgres function

2009-03-10 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Tom Lane writes: > Mario Splivalo writes: >> Now I'm confused, why is 'sql' function much slower than 'direct' SELECT? > > Usually the reason for this is that the planner chooses a different plan > when it has knowledge of the particular value you are searching for than > when it does not. I su

Re: [JDBC] [PERFORM] Query much slower when run from postgres function

2009-03-09 Thread Scott Carey
On 3/9/09 1:40 PM, "Oliver Jowett" wrote: Scott Carey wrote: > >1. And how do you do that from JDBC? There is no standard concept of I've suggested that as a protocol-level addition in the past, but it would mean a new protocol version. The named vs. unnamed statement behaviour was an attem

Re: [PERFORM] Query much slower when run from postgres function

2009-03-09 Thread Tom Lane
Mario Splivalo writes: > So, it is the same. When I do EXPLAIN ANALYZE EXECUTE I get completely > different execution plan: > ... > -> Bitmap Heap Scan on messages > (cost=287.98..21192.42 rows=12848 width=4) (actual time=0.049..0.169 > rows=62 loops=1) >

Re: [PERFORM] Query much slower when run from postgres function

2009-03-09 Thread Mario Splivalo
Tom Lane wrote: > Mario Splivalo writes: >> Is this difference normal? > > It's hard to tell, because you aren't comparing apples to apples. > Try a prepared statement, like [...cut...] > which should produce results similar to the function. You could > then use "explain analyze execute" to prob

Re: [JDBC] [PERFORM] Query much slower when run from postgres function

2009-03-09 Thread Scott Carey
1. And how do you do that from JDBC? There is no standard concept of 'unnamed' prepared statements in most database APIs, and if there were the behavior would be db specific. Telling PG to plan after binding should be more flexible than unnamed prepared statements - or at least more transpa

Re: [JDBC] [PERFORM] Query much slower when run from postgres function

2009-03-09 Thread James Mansion
The driver will use unnamed statements for all statements until it sees the same statement N times where N is 5 I believe, after that it uses a named statement. Shame there's no syntax for it to pass the a table of the parameters to the server when it creates the named statement as planne

Re: [JDBC] [PERFORM] Query much slower when run from postgres function

2009-03-09 Thread Dave Cramer
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Guillaume Smet writes: > > Unnamed prepared statements are planned after binding the values, > > starting with 8.3, or more precisely starting with 8.3.2 as early 8.3 > > versions were partially broken on this behalf. > > No, 8.2 did it too (othe

Re: [PERFORM] Query much slower when run from postgres function

2009-03-09 Thread Tom Lane
Mario Splivalo writes: > Is this difference normal? It's hard to tell, because you aren't comparing apples to apples. Try a prepared statement, like prepare foo(int) as SELECT COUNT(*)::int4 FROM _v1 WHERE service_id = $1 ; execute foo(504); which should produce results

Re: [PERFORM] Query much slower when run from postgres function

2009-03-09 Thread Mario Splivalo
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: >>> Now I'm confused, why is 'sql' function much slower than 'direct' SELECT? >> Usually the reason for this is that the planner chooses a different plan >> when it has knowledge of the particular value you are searching for than >> when it does not. > > Yes, and since

Re: [PERFORM] Query much slower when run from postgres function

2009-03-09 Thread Mario Splivalo
Tom Lane wrote: > Mario Splivalo writes: >> Now I'm confused, why is 'sql' function much slower than 'direct' SELECT? > > Usually the reason for this is that the planner chooses a different plan > when it has knowledge of the particular value you are searching for than > when it does not. I supp

Re: [JDBC] [PERFORM] Query much slower when run from postgres function

2009-03-09 Thread Andreas Wenk
Tom Lane schrieb: Guillaume Smet writes: Unnamed prepared statements are planned after binding the values, starting with 8.3, or more precisely starting with 8.3.2 as early 8.3 versions were partially broken on this behalf. No, 8.2 did it too (otherwise we wouldn't have considered 8.3.0 to b

Re: [JDBC] [PERFORM] Query much slower when run from postgres function

2009-03-09 Thread Tom Lane
Guillaume Smet writes: > Unnamed prepared statements are planned after binding the values, > starting with 8.3, or more precisely starting with 8.3.2 as early 8.3 > versions were partially broken on this behalf. No, 8.2 did it too (otherwise we wouldn't have considered 8.3.0 to be broken...). Th

Re: [JDBC] [PERFORM] Query much slower when run from postgres function

2009-03-09 Thread Guillaume Smet
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Until it's possible to specifically tell the JDBC driver (and/or > PG?) to not plan once for all runs (or is there something better > to think of?), or the whole thing would be more clever (off the > top of my head, PG could try to repl

Re: [PERFORM] Query much slower when run from postgres function

2009-03-09 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Tom Lane writes: > Mario Splivalo writes: >> Now I'm confused, why is 'sql' function much slower than 'direct' SELECT? > > Usually the reason for this is that the planner chooses a different plan > when it has knowledge of the particular value you are searching for than > when it does not. Yes,

Re: [PERFORM] Query much slower when run from postgres function

2009-03-09 Thread Tom Lane
Mario Splivalo writes: > Now I'm confused, why is 'sql' function much slower than 'direct' SELECT? Usually the reason for this is that the planner chooses a different plan when it has knowledge of the particular value you are searching for than when it does not. I suppose 'service_id' has a very

[PERFORM] Query much slower when run from postgres function

2009-03-09 Thread Mario Splivalo
I have a function, looking like this: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION get_memo_display_queue_size(a_service_id integer) RETURNS integer AS $BODY$ SELECT COUNT(*)::integer FROM v_messages_memo LEFT JOIN messages_memo_displayed ON id = message_id WHERE s