Explaining the unexplainable – part 5

In previous posts in this series, I talked about how to read EXPLAIN output, and what each line (operation/node) means.

Now, in the final post, I will try to explain how it happens that Pg chooses “Operation X" over “Operation Y".

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Explaining the unexplainable – part 3

In previous post in the series I wrote about how to interpret single line in explain analyze output, it's structure, and later on described all basic data-getting operations (nodes in explain tree).

Today, we'll move towards more complicated operations.

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Explaining the unexplainable

One of the first things new DBA hears is “Use the EXPLAIN". And upon first try he/she is greeted with incomprehensible:

                                                        QUERY PLAN
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 Sort  (cost=146.63..148.65 ROWS=808 width=138) (actual TIME=55.009..55.012 ROWS=71 loops=1)
   Sort KEY: n.nspname, p.proname, (pg_get_function_arguments(p.oid))
   Sort Method: quicksort  Memory: 43kB
   ->  Hash JOIN  (cost=1.14..107.61 ROWS=808 width=138) (actual TIME=42.495..54.854 ROWS=71 loops=1)
         Hash Cond: (p.pronamespace = n.oid)
         ->  Seq Scan ON pg_proc p  (cost=0.00..89.30 ROWS=808 width=78) (actual TIME=0.052..53.465 ROWS=2402 loops=1)
               FILTER: pg_function_is_visible(oid)
         ->  Hash  (cost=1.09..1.09 ROWS=4 width=68) (actual TIME=0.011..0.011 ROWS=4 loops=1)
               Buckets: 1024  Batches: 1  Memory Usage: 1kB
               ->  Seq Scan ON pg_namespace n  (cost=0.00..1.09 ROWS=4 width=68) (actual TIME=0.005..0.007 ROWS=4 loops=1)
                     FILTER: ((nspname <> 'pg_catalog'::name) AND (nspname <> 'information_schema'::name))

What does it even mean?

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Changes on explain.depesz.com

One of the features that is actually disliked is anonymization. But, regardless of the dislike – it has some users. And one of the user mailed me with information about a bug – namely – foreign table file names were not anonymized.

So, I wrote a patch, tests, released new version of underlying parsing library.

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