Re: Same query, same data different plan

2022-10-10 Thread Kostas Papadopoulos
Hi Adrian, On 10/10/2022 20:59, Adrian Klaver wrote: Information needed: 1) The query and its EXPLAIN ANALYZE for both slow/fast cases. 2) Postgres version. 3) What database are the developers workstation pointing at? 4) What is the test db and is it the same as 3)? 5) What clients are yo

Re: Same query, same data different plan

2022-10-10 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 10/10/22 8:12 AM, Kostas Papadopoulos wrote: On 10/10/2022 17:53, Tom Lane wrote: Kostas Papadopoulos writes: I cannot see how it can be configuration since the two databases are in the same Postgres instance. There is such a thing as ALTER DATABASE ... SET to install different settings

Re: Same query, same data different plan

2022-10-10 Thread Kostas Papadopoulos
On 10/10/2022 17:53, Tom Lane wrote: Kostas Papadopoulos writes: I cannot see how it can be configuration since the two databases are in the same Postgres instance. There is such a thing as ALTER DATABASE ... SET to install different settings at the per-database level. I understand, but I

Re: Same query, same data different plan

2022-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
Kostas Papadopoulos writes: > I cannot see how it can be configuration since the two databases are in the > same > Postgres instance. There is such a thing as ALTER DATABASE ... SET to install different settings at the per-database level. In general, the answer to your question is that the dat

Re: Same query, same data different plan

2022-10-10 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 10/10/22 06:12, Julien Rouhaud wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 04:05:42PM +0300, Kostas Papadopoulos wrote: Hi, Yes, I ran ANALYZE in both databases. Please look at https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Query_Questions to provide more information. Without the information, as detailed at

Re: Same query, same data different plan

2022-10-10 Thread Kostas Papadopoulos
On 10/10/2022 16:44, Ron wrote: How identical is "identical"? For example, does diff says that "pg_dump --schema-only" of DB1 and DB2 are perfectly identical? And are the table counts identical? I created the second database using pg_dump from the first, so they should be exactly the sam

Re: Same query, same data different plan

2022-10-10 Thread Ron
How identical is "identical"? For example, does diff says that "pg_dump --schema-only" of DB1 and DB2 are perfectly identical? And are the table counts identical? On 10/10/22 08:15, Kostas Papadopoulos wrote: Hi, Thank you for responding. My question is not about the performance of a speci

Re: Same query, same data different plan

2022-10-10 Thread Imre Samu
> Ran analyze on both. Running the same query I'm getting different plans, one x10 slower. theory: the "statistics target" is too low ? THEN different random sample --> different statistics ---> different plan,. *"For large tables, ANALYZE takes a random sample of the table contents, rather tha

Re: Same query, same data different plan

2022-10-10 Thread Kostas Papadopoulos
Hi, I cannot see how it can be configuration since the two databases are in the same Postgres instance. Kostas Papadopoulos On 10/10/2022 16:16, Pavel Stehule wrote: po 10. 10. 2022 v 15:12 odesílatel Julien Rouhaud napsal: On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 04:05:42PM +0300, Kostas Papadopoulos wr

Re: Same query, same data different plan

2022-10-10 Thread Pavel Stehule
po 10. 10. 2022 v 15:12 odesílatel Julien Rouhaud napsal: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 04:05:42PM +0300, Kostas Papadopoulos wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Yes, I ran ANALYZE in both databases. > This can be a common case. Check your configuration: work_mem, shared_buffers, effective_cache_size, random_pag

Re: Same query, same data different plan

2022-10-10 Thread Kostas Papadopoulos
Hi, Thank you for responding. My question is not about the performance of a specific query. As I wrote, that is already solved. My question is "how can it be that the same query run in two exactly the same databases can have different plans." Kostas Papadopoulos On 10/10/2022 16:12, Julie

Re: Same query, same data different plan

2022-10-10 Thread Julien Rouhaud
On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 04:05:42PM +0300, Kostas Papadopoulos wrote: > Hi, > > Yes, I ran ANALYZE in both databases. Please look at https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Query_Questions to provide more information.

Re: Same query, same data different plan

2022-10-10 Thread Kostas Papadopoulos
Hi, Yes, I ran ANALYZE in both databases. Kostas On 10/10/2022 16:03, Daevor The Devoted wrote: Hi Is the table stats up to date on both? https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/planner-stats.html Best regards, Na-iem Dollie On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 2:56 PM Kostas Papadopoulos < kos...@met

Re: Same query, same data different plan

2022-10-10 Thread Daevor The Devoted
Hi Is the table stats up to date on both? https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/planner-stats.html Best regards, Na-iem Dollie On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 2:56 PM Kostas Papadopoulos < kos...@methodosit.com.cy> wrote: > > I have two identical databases running in the same instance of Postgresql.

Same query, same data different plan

2022-10-10 Thread Kostas Papadopoulos
I have two identical databases running in the same instance of Postgresql. Ran analyze on both. Running the same query I'm getting different plans, one x10 slower. Although I have solved my problem by re-writing the query, I want to understand why this is happening. If the configuration, Post