Re: Slow execution of SET ROLE, SET search_path and RESET ROLE

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Ulf Lohbrügge <ulf(dot)lohbruegge(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 2017-11-07 20:45 GMT+01:00 Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>:
>>
>> On 2017-11-07 18:48:14 +0100, Ulf Lohbrügge wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > 2017-11-07 16:11 GMT+01:00 Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>:
>> >
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > On 2017-11-07 11:11:36 +0100, Ulf Lohbrügge wrote:
>> > > > I'm using PostgreSQL 9.5.9 on Debian and experience slow execution
>> > > > of
>> > > some
>> > > > basic SET statements.
>> > > >
>> > > > I created about 1600 roles and use that setup for a multi tenancy
>> > > > application:
>> > >
>> > > Hm. How often do you drop/create these roles? How many other
>> > > roles/groups is one role a member of?
>> > >
>> >
>> > I create between 10-40 roles per day.
>>
>> Could you VACUUM (VERBOSE, FREEZE) that table and report the output? Do
>> you ever delete roles?
>
>
> Which table do you mean exactly? pg_catalog.pg_authid?
>
> Sorry, forgot to write that: I delete about 2-3 roles per day.

I'm gonna take a guess that pg_users or pg_roles has gotten bloated
over time. Try running a vacuum full on both of them. It's also
possible some other pg_xxx table is bloated out here too you might
need to download something like checkpostgres.pl to check for bloat in
system catalog tables.