Re: Extremely slow to establish connection when user has a high number of roles

From: Vijaykumar Jain <vijaykumarjain(dot)github(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michal Charemza <michal(at)charemza(dot)name>
Cc: Pgsql Performance <pgsql-performance(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Extremely slow to establish connection when user has a high number of roles
Date: 2024-04-20 14:52:15
Message-ID: CAM+6J95=ChKuRE-o7ogWoJ_4onrfpLVf5LLzYYcK3XGqBgWQ7g@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Apr 20, 2024, 5:25 PM Michal Charemza <michal(at)charemza(dot)name> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We're running PostgreSQL as essentially a data warehouse, and we have a
> few thousand roles, which are used to grant permissions on a table-by-table
> basis to a few thousand users, so a user would typically have say between 1
> and 2 thousand roles. There is also quite a lot of "churn" in terms of
> tables being created/removed, and permissions changed.
>
> The issue is that we're hitting a strange performance problem on
> connection. Sometimes it can take ~25 to 40 seconds just to connect,
> although it's often way quicker
>

can you rule out system catalog bloat ?

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