Re: Slow planning time for simple query

On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 1:19 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Maksim Milyutin <milyutinma@gmail.com> writes:
>> On hot standby I faced with the similar problem.
>> ...
>> is planned 4.940 ms on master and *254.741* ms on standby.
>
> Presumably the problem is that the standby isn't authorized to change
> the btree index's "entry is dead" bits,
>

I don't see anything like that in the code.  We use _bt_killitems to
mark the items as dead and neither that function or any of its caller
has any such assumption.

> so it's unable to prune index
> entries previously detected as dead, and thus the logic that intends
> to improve this situation doesn't work on the standby.
>

If my above understanding is correct, then one thing that could lead
to such behavior is the computation of RecentGlobalXmin on standby.
Basically, if the RecentGlobalXmin has a different value on standby,
then it is possible that the decision whether a particular item is
dead differs on master and standby.

> (I wonder though why, if you executed the same query on the master,
> its setting of the index-entry-is-dead bits didn't propagate to the
> standby.)
>

Because we don't WAL log it.  See _bt_killitems.

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Amit Kapila.
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