Slow query on partitioned table.

From: Glenn Pierce <glennpierce(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Slow query on partitioned table.
Date: 2018-03-27 14:14:30
Message-ID: CAM5ipV_iX11SW4EveqauQ=OXcyY5x9_WpM28hWZ-xjyyV=yJbA@mail.gmail.com
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Hi I am having terrible trouble with a simple partitioned table.
Select queries are very slow.

Ie

SELECT ts::timestamptz, s1.sensor_id, s1.value
FROM sensor_values s1
WHERE s1.sensor_id =
ANY(ARRAY[596304,597992,610978,597998])
AND s1.ts >= '2000-01-01
00:01:01'::timestamptz AND
s1.ts < '2018-03-20
00:01:01'::timestamptz

Takes over five minutes.

Postgres version is PostgreSQL 9.5.9 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled
by gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-11), 64-bit
shared_buffers = 3000MB
work_mem = 50MB
maintenance_work_mem = 64MB
wal_writer_delay = 10000ms
#effective_cache_size = 4GB I guess this is the default

My amount of memory is 15G

The table gets constant inserts (thousands a minute)
The table has something like 700000000 rows.

So the table is defined as

\d+ sensor_values;
Table "public.sensor_values"
Column | Type | Modifiers
| Storage | Stats target | Description
-----------+--------------------------+--------------------------------------------+---------+--------------+-------------
ts | timestamp with time zone | not null
| plain | |
value | double precision | not null default 'NaN'::real
| plain | |
sensor_id | integer | not null
| plain | |
status | tridium_status | not null default
'unknown'::tridium_status | plain | |
Indexes:
"sensor_values_sensor_id_timestamp_index" UNIQUE, btree (sensor_id, ts)
Foreign-key constraints:
"sensor_values_sensor_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (sensor_id) REFERENCES
sensors(id)
Triggers:
a_statistics_trigger BEFORE INSERT OR DELETE ON sensor_values FOR
EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE stat_info()
sensor_values_trigger_timestamp_sensor_insert_sensor_values BEFORE
INSERT ON sensor_values FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE
sensor_values_timestamp_sensor_func_insert_trigger()
Child tables: sensor_values_2007q1,
sensor_values_2007q2,
sensor_values_2007q3,
sensor_values_2007q4,
sensor_values_2008q1,
sensor_values_2008q2,
sensor_values_2008q3,
sensor_values_2008q4,
sensor_values_2009q1,
sensor_values_2009q2,
sensor_values_2009q3,
sensor_values_2009q4,
sensor_values_2010q1,
sensor_values_2010q2,
sensor_values_2010q3,
sensor_values_2010q4,
sensor_values_2011q1,
sensor_values_2011q2,
sensor_values_2011q3,
sensor_values_2011q4,
sensor_values_2012q1,
sensor_values_2012q2,
sensor_values_2012q3,
sensor_values_2012q4,
sensor_values_2013q1,
sensor_values_2013q2,
sensor_values_2013q3,
sensor_values_2013q4,
sensor_values_2014q1,
sensor_values_2014q2,
sensor_values_2014q3,
sensor_values_2014q4,
sensor_values_2015q1,
sensor_values_2015q2,
sensor_values_2015q3,
sensor_values_2015q4,
sensor_values_2016q1,
sensor_values_2016q2,
sensor_values_2016q3,
sensor_values_2016q4,
sensor_values_2017q1,
sensor_values_2017q2,
sensor_values_2017q3,
sensor_values_2017q4,
sensor_values_2018q1,
sensor_values_2018q2,
sensor_values_2018q3,
sensor_values_2018q4,
sensor_values_2019q1,
sensor_values_2019q2,
sensor_values_2019q3,
sensor_values_2019q4,
sensor_values_2020q1,
sensor_values_2020q2,
sensor_values_2020q3,
sensor_values_2020q4

The child tables are all like

Column | Type | Modifiers
| Storage | Stats target | Description
-----------+--------------------------+--------------------------------------------+---------+--------------+-------------
ts | timestamp with time zone | not null
| plain | |
value | double precision | not null default 'NaN'::real
| plain | |
sensor_id | integer | not null
| plain | |
status | tridium_status | not null default
'unknown'::tridium_status | plain | |
Indexes:
"sensor_values_2018q1_sensor_id_timestamp_index" UNIQUE, btree
(sensor_id, ts)
Check constraints:
"sensor_values_2018q1_timestamp_check" CHECK (ts >= '2018-01-01
00:00:00+00'::timestamp with time zone AND ts < '2018-04-01
01:00:00+01'::timestamp with time zone)
Inherits: sensor_values

EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) SELECT ts::timestamptz, s1.sensor_id, s1.value
FROM sensor_values s1
WHERE s1.sensor_id =
ANY(ARRAY[596304,597992,610978,597998])
AND s1.ts >= '2000-01-01
00:01:01'::timestamptz AND
s1.ts < '2018-03-20
00:01:01'::timestamptz
[2018-03-27 14:45:39] 260 rows retrieved starting from 1 in 13m 13s
221ms (execution: 13m 13s 141ms, fetching: 80ms)

Shows the following output

https://explain.depesz.com/s/c8HU

Any idea why this query takes so long ?

Thanks

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