Performance of UPDATE operation

From: "Mkrtchyan, Tigran" <tigran(dot)mkrtchyan(at)desy(dot)de>
To: pgsql-performance(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Performance of UPDATE operation
Date: 2023-02-13 15:09:27
Message-ID: 852709814.33938384.1676300967338.JavaMail.zimbra@desy.de
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Dear Postgres Folks,

Typically we expect that UPDATE is a slow operation in PostgreSQL, however,
there are cases where it's hard to understand why. In particular, I have a table like

```
CREATE SEQUENCE t_inodes_inumber_seq
START WITH 1
INCREMENT BY 1
NO MINVALUE
NO MAXVALUE
CACHE 1;

CREATE TABLE t_inodes (
inumber bigint PRIMARY KEY,
icrtime timestamp with time zone NOT NULL,
igeneration bigint NOT NULL
);
```

and a transaction that inserts and update an entry in that table:

```
BEGIN;
INSERT INTO t_inodes (inumber, icrtime, igeneration)
VALUES (nextval('t_inodes_inumber_seq'), now(), 0) RETURNING inumber \gset

UPDATE t_inodes SET igeneration = igeneration + 1 where inumber = :inumber;
END;
```

The pgbench shows the following result:

```
$ pgbench -h localhost -n -r -f update.sql -t 10000 -c 64 -j 64 testdb
pgbench (15.0 (Debian 15.0-1.pgdg110+1))
transaction type: update.sql
scaling factor: 1
query mode: simple
number of clients: 64
number of threads: 64
maximum number of tries: 1
number of transactions per client: 10000
number of transactions actually processed: 640000/640000
number of failed transactions: 0 (0.000%)
latency average = 11.559 ms
initial connection time = 86.038 ms
tps = 5536.736898 (without initial connection time)
statement latencies in milliseconds and failures:
0.524 0 BEGIN;
0.819 0 INSERT INTO t_inodes (inumber, icrtime, igeneration)
0.962 0 UPDATE t_inodes SET igeneration = igeneration + 1 where inumber = :inumber;
9.203 0 END;
```

My naive expectation will be that updating the newly inserted record should cost nothing... Are there ways
to make it less expensive?

Best regards,
Tigran.

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