Re: Perplexing, regular decline in performance

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Hugh Ranalli <hugh(at)whtc(dot)ca>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Perplexing, regular decline in performance
Date: 2019-06-26 19:07:43
Message-ID: 20190626190743.GA15026@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2019-Jun-26, Hugh Ranalli wrote:

> From my research in preparing for the upgrade, I understood transparent
> huge pages were a good thing, and should be enabled. Is this not correct?

It is not.

> Wouldn't the plan be the same at both
> the start of the week (when the problematic table is essentially empty) and
> at the end (when it is much larger)?

Not necessarily. Though, if a plan change was the culprit you would
probably see a sudden change in performance characteristics rather than
gradual. Worth making sure, anyway.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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