Hi! We have a postgres database which accessed by clients app via PL/PGSQL stored procedures ( 8.4.1 on x86_64 ubuntu 8.04 server). For some reasons we use about 25 temp tables "on commit delete rows". It widely used by our SP. When temp tables with "on commit delete rows" exists, I can see a strange delay at any “begin” and “commit”. 2010-03-09 15:14:01 MSK logrus 32102 amber LOG: duration: 20.809 ms statement: BEGIN 2010-03-09 15:14:01 MSK logrus 32102 amber LOG: duration: 0.809 ms statement: SELECT empl.BL_CustomerFreeCLGet('384154676925391', '8189', NULL) 010-03-09 15:14:01 MSK logrus 32102 amber LOG: duration: 0.283 ms statement: FETCH ALL IN "<unnamed portal 165>"; -- +++empl.BL_CustomerFreeCLGet+++<<21360>> 2010-03-09 15:14:01 MSK logrus 32102 amber LOG: duration: 19.895 ms statement: COMMIT The more system load and more temp table quantity in session, then more “begin” and “commit” delays. Test example below: create database test; create language plpgsql; CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test_connectionprepare(in_create bool,in_IsTemp bool,in_DelOnCommit bool,in_TableCount int) RETURNS boolean AS $$ declare m_count int := 50; m_isTemp bool; begin m_count := coalesce(in_TableCount,m_count); FOR i IN 0..m_count LOOP if in_create then execute 'create ' || case when in_IsTemp then ' temp ' else ' ' end ||' table tmp_table_' || i::text || '(id int,pid int,name text) ' || case when in_DelOnCommit then ' on commit delete rows ' else ' ' end || ';'; else execute 'drop table if exists tmp_table_' || i::text ||';'; end if; END LOOP; return in_create; end; $$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE SECURITY DEFINER; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Now run pgScript: DECLARE @I; SET @I = 1; WHILE @I <= 100 BEGIN select now(); SET @I = @I + 1; END It spent about 2200-2300 ms on my server. Let's create 50 temp tables: select test_connectionprepare(true,true,true,100); and run script again. We can see 2-3 times slowing! Here temp tables quantity vs test run time: 0 - 2157-2187 10 - 2500-2704 50 - 5900-6000 100 - 7900-8000 500 - 43000+ I can to suppose, that all tables are truncated before and after every transactions. Very strange method for read only transactions! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sorry for my English. My server info: "PostgreSQL 8.4.1 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc-4.2.real (GCC) 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu4), 64-bit" Linux u16 2.6.24-24-server #1 SMP Tue Jul 7 19:39:36 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux 4xOpteron 16 processor cores. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance