postgres table statistics
Hi,
We have postgres 13.9 running with tables thats got billions of records of varying sizes. Eventhough pg jdbc driver provides a way to set fetch size to tune the driver to achieve better throughput, the JVM fails at the driver level when records of large size (say 200mb each) flows through. this forces to reduce the fetch size (if were to operate at a fixed Xmx setting of client jvm).
It get a bit trickier when 100s of such tables exists with varying records sizes. trying to see if the fetch size can be set dynamically based on the row count and the record size distribution for a table. Unfortunately, trying to get this data by a query run against each table (for row size: max(length(t::text))) seem to be quite time consuming too.
Does postgres maintain metadata about tables for the following.1. row count
2. max row size.
or is there some other pg metadata that can help get this data quicker.
TIA.
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On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 3:48 AM Chandy G <vgchandru@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,
We have postgres 13.9 running with tables thats got billions of records
of varying sizes. Eventhough pg jdbc driver provides a way to set fetch
size to tune the driver to achieve better throughput, the JVM fails at the
driver level when records of large size (say 200mb each) flows through.
this forces to reduce the fetch size (if were to operate at a fixed Xmx
setting of client jvm).It get a bit trickier when 100s of such tables exists with varying records
sizes. trying to see if the fetch size can be set dynamically based on the
row count and the record size distribution for a table. Unfortunately,
trying to get this data by a query run against each table (for row size:
max(length(t::text))) seem to be quite time consuming too.
Maybe create your own table with three columns:
table_name (PK; taken from pg_class.relname)
average_rec_size (taken from sum(pg_stat.avg_width))
max_rec_size (calculated yourself)
Periodically refresh it. (How periodic depends on how often the average
and max change substantively.)
Does postgres maintain metadata about tables for the following.
1. row count
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/catalog-pg-class.html
pg_class.reltuples. This is an estimate, so make sure your tables are
regularly analyzed.
2. max row size.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/view-pg-stats.html
pg_stats.avg_width
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or is there some other pg metadata that can help get this data quicker.
TIA.
Chandy G schrieb am 12.06.2024 um 09:47:
Eventhough pg jdbc driver provides a way to set fetch size to tune
the driver to achieve better throughput, the JVM fails at the driver
level when records of large size (say 200mb each) flows through.
this forces to reduce the fetch size (if were to operate at a fixed
Xmx setting of client jvm).
Did you try the driver's "adaptive fetch" feature?
https://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/use/#connection-parameters
Thanks Shammat! Seems to fit the bill, Will give it a try.
On Wednesday, 12 June, 2024 at 07:44:27 am GMT-7, Shammat <shammat@gmx.net> wrote:
Chandy G schrieb am 12.06.2024 um 09:47:
Eventhough pg jdbc driver provides a way to set fetch size to tune
the driver to achieve better throughput, the JVM fails at the driver
level when records of large size (say 200mb each) flows through.
this forces to reduce the fetch size (if were to operate at a fixed
Xmx setting of client jvm).
Did you try the driver's "adaptive fetch" feature?
https://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/use/#connection-parameters