Re: PSA: upgrade your extensions

From: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: postgres performance list <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PSA: upgrade your extensions
Date: 2017-02-01 19:48:42
Message-ID: CAMkU=1wYiyA0H-5DyTdAC9UEbTn47Fd+jzshPYvTEh4fpWRrnA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 4:38 AM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I was just troubleshooting a strange performance issue with pg_trgm
> (greatest extension over) that ran great in testing but poor in
> production following a 9.6 in place upgrade from 9.2. By poor I mean
> 7x slower. Problem was resolved by ALTER EXTENSION UPDATE followed by
> a REINDEX on the impacted table. Hope this helps somebody at some
> point :-).
>

It was probably the implementation of the triconsistent function for
pg_trgm (or I would like to think so, anyway).

But if so, the REINDEX should not have been necessary, just the ALTER
EXTENSION UPDATE should do the trick. Rebuiding a large gin index can be
pretty slow.

Cheers,

Jeff

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