Re: SSI patch version 8

Kevin Grittner <kevin.grittner@wicourts.gov>

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: Anssi Kääriäinen <anssi.kaariainen@thl.fi>
Cc: "Dan Ports" <drkp@csail.mit.edu>, "john.okite@gmail.org" <john.okite@gmail.org>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-01-11T14:28:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Anssi Kääriäinen<anssi.kaariainen@thl.fi> wrote:
 
> A speed test showing a significant drop in performance when using
SSI:
> 
> hot2=> create table test_t2 as (select generate_series(0, 1000000));
> hot2=> \timing
> begin transaction isolation level repeatable read;
> Time: 0.185 ms
> hot2=> select count(*) from test_t2;
> Time: 134.521 ms
> hot2=> select count(*) from test_t2;
> Time: 142.132 ms
> hot2=> select count(*) from test_t2;
> Time: 147.469 ms
> hot2=> commit;
> hot2=> begin transaction isolation level serializable;
> Time: 0.165 ms
> hot2=> select count(*) from test_t2;
> Time: 349.219 ms
> hot2=> select count(*) from test_t2;
> Time: 354.010 ms
> hot2=> select count(*) from test_t2;
> Time: 355.960 ms
> hot2=> commit;
> 
> So, count(*) queries are more than twice as slow compared to the old

> serializable transaction isolation level.
 
Thanks for the report.  I'll profile tat and see what can be done about
it.
 
-Kevin