8.0.1 much slower than 7.4.2?

Hi,

I have just upgraded our db from 7.4.2 to 8.0.1 and we are doing some
testing. For some reason, we have discovered that our application performs
much slower on 8.0.1.

My initial reaction was to turn on log_min_duration_statement to see what's
happening. However, log_min_duration_statement does not work for JDBC
clients in 8.0.1.

As a result, I modified log_statement to all. Without my application doing
anything, I see statements below being executed non-stop. Who is triggering
these statemetns? Is this normal? What am I doing wrong?

I am using Fedora Core 1 - Kernel: 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl

Please help. Thanks.

2005-04-04 18:05:00 CST PARSELOG: statement: SELECT attnotnull FROM
pg_catalog.pg_attribute WHERE attrelid = $1 AND attnum = $2
2005-04-04 18:05:00 CST PARSELOG: statement: SELECT def.adsrc FROM
pg_catalog.pg_class c JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attribute a ON (a.attrelid=c.oid
) LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attrdef def ON (a.attrelid=def.adrelid AND
a.attnum = def.adnum) WHERE c.oid = $1 and a.attnum = $2 AND def.adsrc L
IKE '%nextval(%'
2005-04-04 18:05:00 CST PARSELOG: statement: SELECT attnotnull FROM
pg_catalog.pg_attribute WHERE attrelid = $1 AND attnum = $2
2005-04-04 18:05:00 CST PARSELOG: statement: SELECT def.adsrc FROM
pg_catalog.pg_class c JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attribute a ON (a.attrelid=c.oid
) LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attrdef def ON (a.attrelid=def.adrelid AND
a.attnum = def.adnum) WHERE c.oid = $1 and a.attnum = $2 AND def.adsrc L
IKE '%nextval(%'
2005-04-04 18:05:00 CST PARSELOG: statement: SELECT attnotnull FROM
pg_catalog.pg_attribute WHERE attrelid = $1 AND attnum = $2
2005-04-04 18:05:00 CST PARSELOG: statement: SELECT def.adsrc FROM
pg_catalog.pg_class c JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attribute a ON (a.attrelid=c.oid
) LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attrdef def ON (a.attrelid=def.adrelid AND
a.attnum = def.adnum) WHERE c.oid = $1 and a.attnum = $2 AND def.adsrc L
IKE '%nextval(%'
2005-04-04 18:05:00 CST PARSELOG: statement: SELECT attnotnull FROM
pg_catalog.pg_attribute WHERE attrelid = $1 AND attnum = $2
2005-04-04 18:05:00 CST PARSELOG: statement: SELECT def.adsrc FROM
pg_catalog.pg_class c JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attribute a ON (a.attrelid=c.oid
) LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attrdef def ON (a.attrelid=def.adrelid AND
a.attnum = def.adnum) WHERE c.oid = $1 and a.attnum = $2 AND def.adsrc L
IKE '%nextval(%'
2005-04-04 18:05:00 CST PARSELOG: statement: SELECT attnotnull FROM
pg_catalog.pg_attribute WHERE attrelid = $1 AND attnum = $2
2005-04-04 18:05:00 CST PARSELOG: statement: SELECT def.adsrc FROM
pg_catalog.pg_class c JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attribute a ON (a.attrelid=c.oid
) LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attrdef def ON (a.attrelid=def.adrelid AND
a.attnum = def.adnum) WHERE c.oid = $1 and a.attnum = $2 AND def.adsrc L
IKE '%nextval(%'
2005-04-04 18:05:00 CST PARSELOG: statement: SELECT attnotnull FROM
pg_catalog.pg_attribute WHERE attrelid = $1 AND attnum = $2
2005-04-04 18:05:00 CST PARSELOG: statement: SELECT def.adsrc FROM
pg_catalog.pg_class c JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attribute a ON (a.attrelid=c.oid
) LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attrdef def ON (a.attrelid=def.adrelid AND
a.attnum = def.adnum) WHERE c.oid = $1 and a.attnum = $2 AND def.adsrc L
IKE '%nextval(%'
2005-04-04 18:05:00 CST PARSELOG: statement: SELECT attnotnull FROM
pg_catalog.pg_attribute WHERE attrelid = $1 AND attnum = $2
2005-04-04 18:05:00 CST PARSELOG: statement: SELECT def.adsrc FROM
pg_catalog.pg_class c JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attribute a ON (a.attrelid=c.oid
) LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attrdef def ON (a.attrelid=def.adrelid AND
a.attnum = def.adnum) WHERE c.oid = $1 and a.attnum = $2 AND def.adsrc L
IKE '%nextval(%'
2005-04-04 18:05:00 CST PARSELOG: statement: SELECT attnotnull FROM
pg_catalog.pg_attribute WHERE attrelid = $1 AND attnum = $2
2005-04-04 18:05:00 CST PARSELOG: statement: SELECT def.adsrc FROM
pg_catalog.pg_class c JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attribute a ON (a.attrelid=c.oid
) LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attrdef def ON (a.attrelid=def.adrelid AND
a.attnum = def.adnum) WHERE c.oid = $1 and a.attnum = $2 AND def.adsrc L
IKE '%nextval(%'
2005-04-04 18:05:00 CST PARSELOG: statement: SELECT attnotnull FROM
pg_catalog.pg_attribute WHERE attrelid = $1 AND attnum = $2
2005-04-04 18:05:00 CST PARSELOG: statement: SELECT def.adsrc FROM
pg_catalog.pg_class c JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attribute a ON (a.attrelid=c.oid
) LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attrdef def ON (a.attrelid=def.adrelid AND
a.attnum = def.adnum) WHERE c.oid = $1 and a.attnum = $2 AND def.adsrc L
IKE '%nextval(%'
2005-04-04 18:05:00 CST PARSELOG: statement: SELECT attnotnull FROM
pg_catalog.pg_attribute WHERE attrelid = $1 AND attnum = $2
2005-04-04 18:05:00 CST PARSELOG: statement: SELECT def.adsrc FROM
pg_catalog.pg_class c JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attribute a ON (a.attrelid=c.oid
) LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attrdef def ON (a.attrelid=def.adrelid AND
a.attnum = def.adnum) WHERE c.oid = $1 and a.attnum = $2 AND def.adsrc L
IKE '%nextval(%'
2005-04-04 18:05:00 CST PARSELOG: statement: SELECT attnotnull FROM
pg_catalog.pg_attribute WHERE attrelid = $1 AND attnum = $2
2005-04-04 18:05:00 CST PARSELOG: statement: SELECT def.adsrc FROM
pg_catalog.pg_class c JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attribute a ON (a.attrelid=c.oid
) LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_attrdef def ON (a.attrelid=def.adrelid AND
a.attnum = def.adnum) WHERE c.oid = $1 and a.attnum = $2 AND def.adsrc L
IKE '%nextval(%'