pá 16. 8. 2019 v 16:12 odesílatel Konstantin Knizhnik
<k.knizh...@postgrespro.ru <mailto:k.knizh...@postgrespro.ru>>
napsal:
I did more investigations of performance of global temp
tables with shared buffers vs. vanilla (local) temp tables.
1. Combination of persistent and temporary tables in the same
query.
Preparation:
create table big(pk bigint primary key, val bigint);
insert into big values
(generate_series(1,100000000),generate_series(1,100000000));
create temp table lt(key bigint, count bigint);
create global temp table gt(key bigint, count bigint);
Size of table is about 6Gb, I run this test on desktop with
16GB of RAM and postgres with 1Gb shared buffers.
I run two queries:
insert into T (select count(*),pk/P as key from big group by
key);
select sum(count) from T;
where P is (100,10,1) and T is name of temp table (lt or gt).
The table below contains times of both queries in msec:
Percent of selected data
1%
10%
100%
Local temp table
44610
90
47920
891
63414
21612
Global temp table
44669
35
47939
298
59159
26015
As you can see, time of insertion in temporary table is
almost the same
and time of traversal of temporary table is about twice
smaller for global temp table
when it fits in RAM together with persistent table and
slightly worser when it doesn't fit.
2. Temporary table only access.
The same system, but Postgres is configured with
shared_buffers=10GB, max_parallel_workers = 4,
max_parallel_workers_per_gather = 4
Local temp tables:
create temp table local_temp(x1 bigint, x2 bigint, x3 bigint,
x4 bigint, x5 bigint, x6 bigint, x7 bigint, x8 bigint, x9
bigint);
insert into local_temp values
(generate_series(1,100000000),0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0);
select sum(x1) from local_temp;
Global temp tables:
create global temporary table global_temp(x1 bigint, x2
bigint, x3 bigint, x4 bigint, x5 bigint, x6 bigint, x7
bigint, x8 bigint, x9 bigint);
insert into global_temp values
(generate_series(1,100000000),0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0);
select sum(x1) from global_temp;
Results (msec):
Insert
Select
Local temp table 37489
48322
Global temp table 44358
3003
So insertion in local temp table is performed slightly faster
but select is 16 times slower!
Conclusion:
In the assumption then temp table fits in memory, global temp
tables with shared buffers provides better performance than
local temp table.
I didn't consider here global temp tables with local buffers
because for them results should be similar with local temp
tables.
Probably there is not a reason why shared buffers should be
slower than local buffers when system is under low load.
access to shared memory is protected by spin locks (are cheap for
few processes), so tests in one or few process are not too
important (or it is just one side of space)
another topic can be performance on MS Sys - there are stories
about not perfect performance of shared memory there.
Regards
Pavel