Re: track_planning causing performance regression

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>, "Tharakan, Robins" <tharar@amazon.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-07-03T07:02:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
pá 3. 7. 2020 v 8:57 odesílatel Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
napsal:

>
>
> On 2020/07/03 13:05, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > pá 3. 7. 2020 v 4:39 odesílatel Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com
> <mailto:masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>> napsal:
> >
> >
> >
> >     On 2020/07/01 7:37, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> >      > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 6:40 AM Fujii Masao <
> masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com <mailto:masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>> wrote:
> >      >> Ants and Andres suggested to replace the spinlock used in
> pgss_store() with
> >      >> LWLock. I agreed with them and posted the POC patch doing that.
> But I think
> >      >> the patch is an item for v14. The patch may address the reported
> performance
> >      >> issue, but may cause other performance issues in other
> workloads. We would
> >      >> need to measure how the patch affects the performance in various
> workloads.
> >      >> It seems too late to do that at this stage of v13. Thought?
> >      >
> >      > I agree that it's too late for v13.
> >
> >     Thanks for the comment!
> >
> >     So I pushed the patch and changed default of track_planning to off.
> >
> >
> > Maybe there can be documented so enabling this option can have a
> negative impact on performance.
>
> Yes. What about adding either of the followings into the doc?
>
>      Enabling this parameter may incur a noticeable performance penalty.
>
> or
>
>      Enabling this parameter may incur a noticeable performance penalty,
>      especially when a fewer kinds of queries are executed on many
>      concurrent connections.
>

This second variant looks perfect for this case.

Thank you

Pavel




> Regards,
>
> --
> Fujii Masao
> Advanced Computing Technology Center
> Research and Development Headquarters
> NTT DATA CORPORATION
>

Commits

  1. doc: Fix description about pg_stat_statements.track_planning.

  2. doc: Add note about possible performance overhead by enabling track_planning.

  3. Change default of pg_stat_statements.track_planning to off.