On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 12:43 PM Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 6/21/23 00:26, Marc Millas wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 11:19 PM David Rowley <dgrowleyml@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:dgrowleyml@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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> On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 at 08:34, Marc Millas <marc.millas@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:marc.millas@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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> > On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 10:14 PM David Rowley
> <dgrowleyml@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:dgrowleyml@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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> >> On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 at 07:42, Marc Millas <marc.millas@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:marc.millas@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >> > But if I do the same with clause one OR clause 2, I have to
> kill the request after an hour, seeing the filesystem showing more
> than 140 Mb of increased usage.
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> >>
> > link to the anonymized plan of the req with one clause :
> https://explain.depesz.com/s/TWp4 <https://explain.depesz.com/s/TWp4>
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> link to the plan with the second
> clause alone: https://explain.depesz.com/s/byW5
> <https://explain.depesz.com/s/byW5>
> link to the plan with both clauses ORed (the one not
> finishing) https://explain.depesz.com/s/jHO2
> <https://explain.depesz.com/s/jHO2>
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> It's quite difficult to know what the problem is you want to fix here.
> Your initial post indicated it was the query with the OR condition
> that was causing you the problems, but the plan you've posted has no
> OR condition?!
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> You're more likely to get help here if you take time to properly
> explain the situation and post the information that's actually
> relevant to the problem you're having, or state the problem more
> clearly, as there's a mismatch somewhere.
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> It might also be worth having a look at
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Query_Questions
> <https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Query_Questions> . EXPLAIN is not
> going to tell us what part of the query is slow. I'll let the wiki
> page guide you into what to do instead.
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> I know that page. obviously, as I have to kill the request, I cannot
> provide a explain analyze...
>
It's a bit weird the "victor" table is joined seemingly without any join
conditions, leading to a cross join (which massively inflates the cost
for joins above it). Maybe the anonymized plan mangles it somehow.
the query does:
select blabla from table1 join table2 on (list of 9 fields ANDed and corresponding to the index of both table1 and table2)
join table3 on table1.a=table3.a and table1.b=table3.b
join table4 on (list of 2 clauses table2.d=table4.e and one clause substr(table2.f)=table4.g all ORed)
table1 and table2 are big (15M and 60M lines), table3 and table4 are small (30k lines)
basically, if I rewrites the query beginning by the join between table2 and table4, then join table1 and then table3, postgres generates the same plan, which doesnt end.
if instead of the 3 clauses of the last join I keep one equality clause, the explain plan looks the same, but executes in 45 secondes.
regards
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Tomas Vondra
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Marc MILLAS
