From: | David Kerr <dmk(at)mr-paradox(dot)net> |
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To: | Nikolas Everett <nik9000(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Very high effective_cache_size == worse performance? |
Date: | 2010-04-20 18:20:30 |
Message-ID: | 20100420182030.GA53489@mr-paradox.net |
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 02:12:15PM -0400, Nikolas Everett wrote:
- On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:03 PM, David Kerr <dmk(at)mr-paradox(dot)net> wrote:
-
- > that thought occured to me while I was testing this. I ran a vacuumdb -z
- > on my database during the load and it didn't impact performance at all.
- >
- > Incidentally the code is written to work like this :
- >
- > while (read X lines in file){
- > Process those lines.
- > write lines to DB.
- > }
- >
- > So i would generally expect to get the benefits of the updated staticis
- > once the loop ended. no? (would prepared statements affect that possibly?)
- >
- > Also, while I was debugging the problem, I did load a 2nd file into the DB
- > ontop of one that had been loaded. So the statistics almost certinaly
- > should
- > have been decent at that point.
- >
- > I did turn on log_min_duration_statement but that caused performance to be
- > unbearable,
- > but i could turn it on again if it would help.
- >
- > Dave
-
-
- You can absolutely use copy if you like but you need to use a non-standard
- jdbc driver: kato.iki.fi/sw/db/postgresql/jdbc/copy/. I've used it in the
- past and it worked.
-
- Is the whole thing going in in one transaction? I'm reasonably sure
- statistics aren't kept for uncommited transactions.
-
- For inserts the prepared statements can only help. For selects they can
- hurt because eventually the JDBC driver will turn them into back end
- prepared statements that are only planned once. The price here is that that
- plan may not be the best plan for the data that you throw at it.
-
- What was log_min_duration_statement logging that it killed performance?
-
- --Nik
Good to know about the jdbc-copy. but this is a huge project and the load is
just one very very tiny component, I don't think we could introduce anything
new to assist that.
It's not all in one tx. I don't have visibility to the code to determine how
it's broken down, but most likely each while loop is a tx.
I set it to log all statements (i.e., = 0.). that doubled the load time from
~15 to ~30 hours. I could, of course, be more granular if it would be helpful.
Dave
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