Re: [PERFORM] Trying to track down weird query stalls

2009-03-30 Thread Scott Carey
On 3/30/09 2:34 PM, "d...@sidhe.org" wrote: >> d...@sidhe.org escribió: >> So what's the "?" in the query you pasted earlier? >>> >>> The first ? (for architecture) is 1, the second ? (for branchid) is 0. >>> They both should get passed to Postgres as $1 and $2, respectively, >>> assuming

Re: [PERFORM] Trying to track down weird query stalls

2009-03-30 Thread Alvaro Herrera
d...@sidhe.org escribió: > Fair enough. (And sorry about the mis-read) Next time this occurs I'll try > and duplicate this in psql. FWIW, a quick read of the C underlying the > DBD::Pg module shows it using PQexecPrepared, so I'm pretty sure it is > using prepared statements with placeholders, but

Re: [PERFORM] Trying to track down weird query stalls

2009-03-30 Thread dan
> d...@sidhe.org escribió: > >> > So what's the "?" in the query you pasted earlier? >> >> The first ? (for architecture) is 1, the second ? (for branchid) is 0. >> They both should get passed to Postgres as $1 and $2, respectively, >> assuming DBD::Pg does its substitution right. (They're both sup

Re: [PERFORM] Trying to track down weird query stalls

2009-03-30 Thread Alvaro Herrera
d...@sidhe.org escribió: > > So what's the "?" in the query you pasted earlier? > > The first ? (for architecture) is 1, the second ? (for branchid) is 0. > They both should get passed to Postgres as $1 and $2, respectively, > assuming DBD::Pg does its substitution right. (They're both supposed t

Re: [PERFORM] Trying to track down weird query stalls

2009-03-30 Thread dan
> d...@sidhe.org escribió: >> > d...@sidhe.org escribió: >> > >> >> where libinstance.libdate <= 1238445044 >> >>and libinstance.enddate > 1238445044 >> >>and libinstance.libinstanceid = libobject.libinstanceid >> >>and libinstance.architecture = ? >> > >> > How are you generating the e

Re: [PERFORM] Trying to track down weird query stalls

2009-03-30 Thread Alvaro Herrera
d...@sidhe.org escribió: > > d...@sidhe.org escribió: > > > >> where libinstance.libdate <= 1238445044 > >>and libinstance.enddate > 1238445044 > >>and libinstance.libinstanceid = libobject.libinstanceid > >>and libinstance.architecture = ? > > > > How are you generating the explain? M

Re: [PERFORM] Trying to track down weird query stalls

2009-03-30 Thread dan
> d...@sidhe.org escribió: > >> where libinstance.libdate <= 1238445044 >>and libinstance.enddate > 1238445044 >>and libinstance.libinstanceid = libobject.libinstanceid >>and libinstance.architecture = ? > > How are you generating the explain? My bet is that you're just > substituting

Re: [PERFORM] Trying to track down weird query stalls

2009-03-30 Thread Alvaro Herrera
d...@sidhe.org escribió: > where libinstance.libdate <= 1238445044 >and libinstance.enddate > 1238445044 >and libinstance.libinstanceid = libobject.libinstanceid >and libinstance.architecture = ? How are you generating the explain? My bet is that you're just substituting a literal in

Re: [PERFORM] Trying to track down weird query stalls

2009-03-30 Thread dan
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 4:02 PM, wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:42 PM,   wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:42 PM,   wrote: >> Arguably in this case the actual query should run faster than the >> EXPLAIN >> ANALYZE version, since the cache is hot. (Though that'd only like

Re: [PERFORM] Trying to track down weird query stalls

2009-03-30 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 4:02 PM, wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:42 PM,   wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:42 PM,   wrote: > Arguably in this case the actual query should run faster than the > EXPLAIN > ANALYZE version, since the cache is hot. (Though that'd only likely

Re: [PERFORM] Trying to track down weird query stalls

2009-03-30 Thread dan
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:42 PM, wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:42 PM,   wrote: Arguably in this case the actual query should run faster than the EXPLAIN ANALYZE version, since the cache is hot. (Though that'd only likely shave a few dozen ms off the runtime) >>>

Re: [PERFORM] Trying to track down weird query stalls

2009-03-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:42 PM, wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:42 PM,   wrote: >>> Arguably in this case the actual query should run faster than the >>> EXPLAIN >>> ANALYZE version, since the cache is hot. (Though that'd only likely >>> shave >>> a few dozen ms off the runtime) >> >> Joini

Re: [PERFORM] Trying to track down weird query stalls

2009-03-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:42 PM, wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:50 PM,   wrote: >>> I'm running a 64-bit build of Postgres 8.3.5 on AIX 5.3, and have a >>> really >>> strange, annoying transient problem with one particular query stalling. >>> >>> The symptom here is that when this query is

Re: [PERFORM] Trying to track down weird query stalls

2009-03-30 Thread dan
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:42 PM, wrote: >> Arguably in this case the actual query should run faster than the >> EXPLAIN >> ANALYZE version, since the cache is hot. (Though that'd only likely >> shave >> a few dozen ms off the runtime) > > Joining a lot of tables together? Could be GEQO kickin

Re: [PERFORM] Trying to track down weird query stalls

2009-03-30 Thread dan
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:42 PM, wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:50 PM,   wrote: >> I'm not executing any of the EXPLAINs by hand, because I didn't want to >> have to worry about typos or filling in temp tables with test data. >> Inside >> the app the SQL for the problematic query's stored

Re: [PERFORM] Trying to track down weird query stalls

2009-03-30 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:42 PM, wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:50 PM,   wrote: >>> I'm running a 64-bit build of Postgres 8.3.5 on AIX 5.3, and have a >>> really >>> strange, annoying transient problem with one particular query stalling. >>> >>> The symptom here is that when this query is m

Re: [PERFORM] Trying to track down weird query stalls

2009-03-30 Thread dan
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:50 PM, wrote: >> I'm running a 64-bit build of Postgres 8.3.5 on AIX 5.3, and have a >> really >> strange, annoying transient problem with one particular query stalling. >> >> The symptom here is that when this query is made with X or more records >> in >> a temp table

Re: [PERFORM] Trying to track down weird query stalls

2009-03-30 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:50 PM, wrote: > I'm running a 64-bit build of Postgres 8.3.5 on AIX 5.3, and have a really > strange, annoying transient problem with one particular query stalling. > > The symptom here is that when this query is made with X or more records in > a temp table involved in

[PERFORM] Trying to track down weird query stalls

2009-03-30 Thread dan
I'm running a 64-bit build of Postgres 8.3.5 on AIX 5.3, and have a really strange, annoying transient problem with one particular query stalling. The symptom here is that when this query is made with X or more records in a temp table involved in the join (where X is constant when the problem mani