Re: [PERFORM] temp table "on commit delete rows": transaction overhead

2010-04-06 Thread Artiom Makarov
2010/4/1 Bruce Momjian : > I think one of the problems is that we do the truncate even if the table > has not be touched by the query, which is poor behavior. Thank you for the support. Will be this problem registered? PS I see a workaround: switch off "on commit delete rows" on temp tables and

Re: [PERFORM] temp table "on commit delete rows": transaction overhead

2010-04-06 Thread Artiom Makarov
2010/3/30 Tom Lane : > I don't recall any operations at transaction start for such tables, > but there may be some. > Both in СommitTransaction(void) and PrepareTransaction(void) we can see PreCommit_on_commit_actions() call; Here PreCommit_on_commit_actions() case ONCOM

Re: [PERFORM] temp table "on commit delete rows": transaction overhead

2010-04-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
Artiom Makarov wrote: > 2010/4/1 Bruce Momjian : > > > I think one of the problems is that we do the truncate even if the table > > has not be touched by the query, which is poor behavior. > > Thank you for the support. > Will be this problem registered? I have it on my personal TODO and will tr

Re: [PERFORM] temp table "on commit delete rows": transaction overhead

2010-03-31 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Artiom Makarov writes: > > When temp tables with "on commit delete rows" exists, I can see a > > strange delay at any ?begin? and ?commit?. > > A delay at commit is hardly surprising, because each such temp table > requires filesystem operations at commit (basically an "ftruncat

Re: [PERFORM] temp table "on commit delete rows": transaction overhead

2010-03-30 Thread Tom Lane
Artiom Makarov writes: > When temp tables with "on commit delete rows" exists, I can see a > strange delay at any “begin” and “commit”. A delay at commit is hardly surprising, because each such temp table requires filesystem operations at commit (basically an "ftruncate"). I don't recall any oper