Re: Slow GRANT ROLE on PostgreSQL 16 with thousands of ROLEs

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: alex work <alexwork033(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Slow GRANT ROLE on PostgreSQL 16 with thousands of ROLEs
Date: 2024-03-21 20:31:45
Message-ID: 642442.1711053105@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I wrote:
> ... I still see the problematic GRANT taking ~250ms, compared
> to 5ms in v15. roles_is_member_of is clearly on the hook for that.

Ah: looks like that is mainly the fault of the list_append_unique_oid
calls in roles_is_member_of. That's also an O(N^2) cost of course,
though with a much smaller constant factor.

I don't think we have any really cheap way to de-duplicate the role
OIDs, especially seeing that it has to be done on-the-fly within the
collection loop, and the order of roles_list is at least potentially
interesting. Not sure how to make further progress without a lot of
work.

regards, tom lane

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