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Postgres Performance for Humans by Craig Kerstiens

PyCon 2014
April 13, 2014
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Postgres Performance for Humans by Craig Kerstiens

PyCon 2014

April 13, 2014
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  1. Postgres - TLDR Datatypes Conditional Indexes Transactional DDL Foreign Data

    Wrappers Concurrent Index Creation Extensions Common Table Expressions Fast Column Addition Listen/Notify Table Inheritance Per Transaction sync replication Window functions NoSQL inside SQL Momentum
  2. Postgres Setup/Config On Amazon Use Heroku OR ‘postgresql when its

    not your dayjob’ Other clouds ‘postgresql when its not your dayjob’ Real hardware High performance PostgreSQL ! http://thebuild.com/blog/2012/06/04/postgresql-when-its-not-your-job-at-djangocon-europe/
  3. Cache Hit Rate SELECT 'index hit rate' as name, (sum(idx_blks_hit)

    - sum(idx_blks_read)) / sum(idx_blks_hit + idx_blks_read) as ratio FROM pg_statio_user_indexes union all SELECT 'cache hit rate' as name, case sum(idx_blks_hit) when 0 then 'NaN'::numeric else to_char((sum(idx_blks_hit) - sum(idx_blks_read)) / sum(idx_blks_hit + idx_blks_read), '99.99')::numeric end as ratio FROM pg_statio_user_indexes)
  4. Index Hit Rate SELECT relname, 100 * idx_scan / (seq_scan

    + idx_scan), n_live_tup FROM pg_stat_user_tables ORDER BY n_live_tup DESC; ! ! !
  5. Index Hit Rate relname | percent_of_times_index_used | rows_in_table ---------------------+-----------------------------+--------------- events

    | 0 | 669917 app_infos_user_info | 0 | 198218 app_infos | 50 | 175640 user_info | 3 | 46718 rollouts | 0 | 34078 favorites | 0 | 3059 schema_migrations | 0 | 2 authorizations | 0 | 0 delayed_jobs | 23 | 0
  6. Rough guidelines Cache hit rate >= 99% ! Index hit

    rate >= 95% where on > 10,000 rows
  7. $ cat ~/.psqlrc ! \set ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK interactive ! -- automatically

    switch between extended and normal \x auto ! -- always show how long a query takes \timing ! \set show_slow_queries 'SELECT (total_time / 1000 / 60) as total_minutes, (total_time/calls) as average_time, query FROM pg_stat_statements ORDER BY 1 DESC LIMIT 100;' ! psql
  8. $ cat ~/.psqlrc ! \set ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK interactive ! -- automatically

    switch between extended and normal \x auto ! -- always show how long a query takes \timing ! \set show_slow_queries 'SELECT (total_time / 1000 / 60) as total_minutes, (total_time/calls) as average_time, query FROM pg_stat_statements ORDER BY 1 DESC LIMIT 100;' ! psql
  9. Sequential Scanning Record 1 Record 2 Record 3 Record 4

    Record 5 Record … Record 1 Record 2 Record 3 Record 4 Record 5 Record …
  10. Index Scans A-F G-L M-R S-Z G H I J

    K L Record 57 Record … Record …
  11. Sequential Scans Good for large reports ! Computing over lots

    of data (1k + rows) Index Scans Good for small results ! Most common queries in your app
  12. Explain # EXPLAIN SELECT last_name FROM employees WHERE salary >=

    50000; ! QUERY PLAN -------------------------------------------------- Seq Scan on employees (cost=0.00..35811.00 rows=1 width=6) Filter: (salary >= 50000) (3 rows)
  13. Explain # EXPLAIN SELECT last_name FROM employees WHERE salary >=

    50000; QUERY PLAN -------------------------------------------------- Seq Scan on employees width=6) Filter: (salary >= 50000) (3 rows) startup time max time rows return (cost=0.00..35811.00 rows=1
  14. Explain Analyze # EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT last_name FROM employees WHERE

    salary >= 50000; QUERY PLAN -------------------------------------------------- Seq Scan on employees (cost=0.00..35811.00 rows=1 width=6) (actual time=2.401..295.247 rows=1428 loops=1) Filter: (salary >= 50000) Total runtime: 295.379 (3 rows) ! Filter: (salary >= 50000) (3 rows) startup time max time rows return actual time 2.401..295.247 rows=1428 295.379
  15. Explain Analyze # EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT last_name FROM employees WHERE

    salary >= 50000; QUERY PLAN -------------------------------------------------- Seq Scan on employees (cost=0.00..35811.00 rows=1 width=6) (actual time=2.401..295.247 rows=1428 loops=1) Filter: (salary >= 50000) Total runtime: 295.379 (3 rows) ! Filter: (salary >= 50000) (3 rows) startup time max time rows return actual time 2.401..295.247 rows=1428 295.379
  16. Indexes! EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT last_name FROM employees WHERE salary >=

    50000; QUERY PLAN -------------------------------------------------- Index Scan using idx_emps on employees (cost=0.00..8.49 rows=1 width=6) (actual time = 0.047..1.603 rows=1428 loops=1) Index Cond: (salary >= 50000) Total runtime: 1.771 ms (3 rows)
  17. pg_stat_statements $ select * from pg_stat_statements where query ~ 'from

    users where email'; ! ! userid │ 16384 dbid │ 16388 query │ select * from users where email = ?; calls │ 2 total_time │ 0.000268 rows │ 2 shared_blks_hit │ 16 shared_blks_read │ 0 shared_blks_dirtied │ 0 shared_blks_written │ 0 local_blks_hit │ 0 local_blks_read │ 0 local_blks_dirtied │ 0 local_blks_written │ 0 ...
  18. SELECT (total_time / 1000 / 60) as total, (total_time/calls) as

    avg, query FROM pg_stat_statements ORDER BY 1 DESC LIMIT 100; pg_stat_statements
  19. total | avg | query --------+--------+------------------------- 295.76 | 10.13 |

    SELECT id FROM users... 219.13 | 80.24 | SELECT * FROM ... (2 rows) ! pg_stat_statements
  20. Indexes B-Tree Generalized Inverted Index (GIN) Generalized Search Tree (GIST)

    K Nearest Neighbors (KNN) Space Partitioned GIST (SP-GIST)
  21. Indexes B-Tree Generalized Inverted Index (GIN) Generalized Search Tree (GIST)

    K Nearest Neighbors (KNN) Space Partitioned GIST (SP-GIST) VODKA (Coming soon)
  22. Conditional > SELECT * FROM places; ! name | population

    ----------------------------------- ACMAR | 6055 ARAB | 13650
  23. Conditional > SELECT * FROM places WHERE population > 10000;

    ! name | population ----------------------------------- ARAB | 13650
  24. > SELECT * FROM places WHERE get_numeric('pop', data) > 10000;

    ! data ----------------------------------- {"city": "ARAB", "pop": 13650} Functional
  25. hstore CREATE EXTENSION hstore; CREATE TABLE users ( id integer

    NOT NULL, email character varying(255), data hstore, created_at timestamp without time zone, last_login timestamp without time zone );
  26. hstore INSERT INTO users VALUES ( 1, '[email protected]', 'sex =>

    "M", state => “California”', now(), now() ); !
  27. Logical Good across architectures Good for portability ! Has load

    on DB ! Works < 50 GB Physical More initial setup Less portability ! Limited load on system ! Use above 50 GB
  28. OLAP ! Whole other talk Disk IO is important Order

    on disk is helpful (pg-reorg) MPP solutions on top of Postgres Recap
  29. OLTP (webapps) Ensure bulk of data is cache Optimize overall

    query load with pg_stat_statements Efficient use of indexes When cache sucks, throw more at it Recap