AWS DMS – Target TableName Differs

AWS DMS is a tool that supports both homogenous and heterogeneous migration, helping to migrate to aws cloud.

During most of the migrations, the source and target table names remain the same, in which case the Mappings.json file is pretty simple. As an example (Oracle to PostgreSQL)

 {
    "rules":
    [
        {
            "rule-type": "selection",
            "rule-id": "1",
            "rule-name": "1",
            "object-locator":
            {
                "schema-name": "DEVO",
                "table-name": "TEST_DEMO"
            },
            "rule-action": "include"
        },
        {
            "rule-type": "transformation",
            "rule-id": "2",
            "rule-name": "2",
            "rule-action": "convert-lowercase",
            "rule-target": "schema",
            "object-locator":
            {
                "schema-name": "%"
            }
        },
        {
            "rule-type": "transformation",
            "rule-id": "3",
            "rule-name": "3",
            "rule-action": "convert-lowercase",
            "rule-target": "table",
            "object-locator":
            {
                "schema-name": "%",
                "table-name": "%"
            }
        },
        {
            "rule-type": "transformation",
            "rule-id": "4",
            "rule-name": "4",
            "rule-action": "convert-lowercase",
            "rule-target": "column",
            "object-locator":
            {
                "schema-name": "%",
                "table-name": "%",
                "column-name": "%"
            }
        }
    ]
}

The above Mappings.json, includes the table DEVO.TEST_DEMO to be migrated from Oracle to PostgreSQL, with the transformation of convert-lowercase for schema, table-name and column name.

But what if, the target table name is different, migrating from DEVO.TEST_DEMO to devo.test_demo_new. In such scenario, below Mappings.json can be used —

    {
      "rules": [
        {
          "rule-type": "selection",
          "rule-id": "1",
          "rule-name": "1",
          "object-locator": {
            "schema-name": "DEVO",
            "table-name": "TEST_DEMO"
          },
          "rule-action": "include"
        },
        {
          "rule-type": "transformation",
          "rule-id": "2",
          "rule-name": "2",
          "rule-action": "convert-lowercase",
          "rule-target": "schema",
          "object-locator": {
            "schema-name": "%"
          }
        },
        {
          "rule-type": "transformation",
          "rule-id": "3",
          "rule-name": "3",
          "rule-action": "rename",
          "rule-target": "table",
          "object-locator": {
            "schema-name": "devo",
            "table-name": "TEST_DEMO"
          },
          "value": "test_demo_new"
        },
        {
          "rule-type": "transformation",
          "rule-id": "4",
          "rule-name": "4",
          "rule-action": "convert-lowercase",
          "rule-target": "table",
          "object-locator": {
            "schema-name": "%",
            "table-name": "%"
          }
        },
        {
          "rule-type": "transformation",
          "rule-id": "5",
          "rule-name": "5",
          "rule-action": "convert-lowercase",
          "rule-target": "column",
          "object-locator": {
            "schema-name": "devo",
            "table-name": "test_demo",
            "column-name": "%"
          }
        }
      ]
    }

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PostgreSQL – Unique constraint and null value

An important behavior in PostgreSQL to know about is the duplicate null values do not violate unique constraints.

Oracle

SQL> create table test (id number (2,0), 
                        country varchar(20) not null, 
                        state varchar(20)
                       );

Table created.

SQL> alter table test add constraint pk_test_id primary key (id);

Table altered.

SQL> alter table test add constraint uniq_test_cs unique (country, state);

Table altered.

PostgreSQL

admin@test # create table test (id numeric(2,0), 
                                country character varying(20) not null, 
                                state character varying(20)
                                );
CREATE TABLE
Time: 78.866 ms

admin@test # alter table test add constraint pk_test_id primary key (id);
ALTER TABLE
Time: 81.062 ms

admin@test # alter table test add constraint uniq_test_cs unique (country, state);
ALTER TABLE
Time: 82.800 ms

Let look at the way how null is handle with unique constraint in place.

Behaviour in Oracle

SQL> insert into test values (1, 'USA','SEATTLE');

1 row created.

SQL>  insert into test values (2, 'USA', 'OREGON');

1 row created.

SQL> insert into test (id, country) values (3, 'USA');

1 row created.

SQL> select * from test;

        ID COUNTRY              STATE
---------- -------------------- --------------------
         1 USA                  SEATTLE
         2 USA                  OREGON
         3 USA

SQL> insert into test (id, country) values (4, 'USA');
insert into test (id, country) values (4, 'USA')
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00001: unique constraint (DEV.UNIQ_TEST_CS) violated

Behaviour in PostgreSQL

admin@test # insert into test values (1, 'USA','SEATTLE');
INSERT 0 1
Time: 79.928 ms

admin@test # insert into test values (2, 'USA', 'OREGON');
INSERT 0 1
Time: 72.490 ms

admin@test # insert into test (id, country) values (3, 'USA');
INSERT 0 1
Time: 75.906 ms
admin@test # select * from test;
+----+---------+---------+
| id | country |  state  |
+----+---------+---------+
|  1 | USA     | SEATTLE |
|  2 | USA     | OREGON  |
|  3 | USA     | NULL    |
+----+---------+---------+
(3 rows)

Time: 74.928 ms
admin@test # insert into test (id, country) values (4, 'USA');
INSERT 0 1
Time: 76.040 ms
admin@test # select * from test;
+----+---------+---------+
| id | country |  state  |
+----+---------+---------+
|  1 | USA     | SEATTLE |
|  2 | USA     | OREGON  |
|  3 | USA     | NULL    |
|  4 | USA     | NULL    |
+----+---------+---------+
(4 rows)

Time: 83.693 ms
admin@test #

2 ways to handle such situation —

1. Set default value for the column, which will case “duplicate key value violates” error.

2. Create Partial index.

admin@test # create unique index uniq_test_c on test(country) where state is null;
ERROR:  could not create unique index "uniq_test_c"
DETAIL:  Key (country)=(USA) is duplicated.
Time: 254.043 ms

admin@test # delete from test where id in (3,4);
DELETE 2
Time: 77.395 ms
admin@test # select * from test;
+----+---------+---------+
| id | country |  state  |
+----+---------+---------+
|  1 | USA     | SEATTLE |
|  2 | USA     | OREGON  |
+----+---------+---------+
(2 rows)

Time: 77.451 ms

admin@test # create unique index uniq_test_c on test(country) where state is null;
CREATE INDEX
Time: 78.431 ms

admin@test # insert into test (id, country) values (3, 'USA');
INSERT 0 1
Time: 75.413 ms

admin@test # insert into test (id, country) values (4, 'USA');
ERROR:  duplicate key value violates unique constraint "uniq_test_c"
DETAIL:  Key (country)=(USA) already exists.
Time: 95.083 ms
admin@test #

As per PostgreSQL documentation —

In general, a unique constraint is violated if there is more than one row in the table where the values of all of the columns included in the constraint are equal. However, two null values are never considered equal in this comparison. That means even in the presence of a unique constraint it is possible to store duplicate rows that contain a null value in at least one of the constrained columns. This behavior conforms to the SQL standard, but we have heard that other SQL databases might not follow this rule. So be careful when developing applications that are intended to be portable

FillFactor for UPDATE

What is FillFactor in PostgreSQL?

As per offical Doc —

fillfactor (integer)

The fillfactor for a table is a percentage between 10 and 100. 100 (complete packing) is the default. When a smaller fillfactor is specified, INSERT operations pack table pages only to the indicated percentage; the remaining space on each page is reserved for updating rows on that page. This gives UPDATE a chance to place the updated copy of a row on the same page as the original, which is more efficient than placing it on a different page. For a table whose entries are never updated, complete packing is the best choice, but in heavily updated tables smaller fillfactors are appropriate. This parameter cannot be set for TOAST tables.

Does this ring any bell related to Oracle?

Yes, its PCTFREE.

The PCTFREE parameter sets the minimum percentage of a data block to be reserved as free space for possible updates to rows that already exist in that block.

In Postgres world, during an UPDATE the old tuple is marked as deleted by the current transaction and new tuple is inserted. Now depending on space availability within the same page, the new tuple can be inserted into it or in another page. Along with this, index pointer modification to the new tuple will be done.

anand@postgres # create table test (data varchar(2));
CREATE TABLE
Time: 7.049 ms

anand@postgres # insert into test values ('a');
INSERT 0 1
Time: 1.408 ms
anand@postgres # select * from heap_page_items(get_raw_page('test',0));
+----+--------+----------+--------+--------+--------+----------+--------+-------------+------------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
| lp | lp_off | lp_flags | lp_len | t_xmin | t_xmax | t_field3 | t_ctid | t_infomask2 | t_infomask | t_hoff | t_bits | t_oid | t_data |
+----+--------+----------+--------+--------+--------+----------+--------+-------------+------------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
|  1 |   8160 |        1 |     26 |   1012 |      0 |        0 | (0,1)  |           1 |       2050 |     24 | NULL   |  NULL | \x0561 |
+----+--------+----------+--------+--------+--------+----------+--------+-------------+------------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
(1 row)

Time: 0.296 ms

anand@postgres # SELECT txid_current_snapshot();
+-----------------------+
| txid_current_snapshot |
+-----------------------+
| 1013:1013:            |
+-----------------------+
(1 row)

Time: 0.213 ms
anand@postgres # insert into test values ('b');
INSERT 0 1
Time: 1.237 ms
anand@postgres # select * from heap_page_items(get_raw_page('test',0));
+----+--------+----------+--------+--------+--------+----------+--------+-------------+------------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
| lp | lp_off | lp_flags | lp_len | t_xmin | t_xmax | t_field3 | t_ctid | t_infomask2 | t_infomask | t_hoff | t_bits | t_oid | t_data |
+----+--------+----------+--------+--------+--------+----------+--------+-------------+------------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
|  1 |   8160 |        1 |     26 |   1012 |      0 |        0 | (0,1)  |           1 |       2050 |     24 | NULL   |  NULL | \x0561 |
|  2 |   8128 |        1 |     26 |   1013 |      0 |        0 | (0,2)  |           1 |       2050 |     24 | NULL   |  NULL | \x0562 |
+----+--------+----------+--------+--------+--------+----------+--------+-------------+------------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
(2 rows)

Time: 0.448 ms

anand@postgres # update test set data='c' where data='a';
UPDATE 1
Time: 1.806 ms
anand@postgres # select * from heap_page_items(get_raw_page('test',0));
+----+--------+----------+--------+--------+--------+----------+--------+-------------+------------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
| lp | lp_off | lp_flags | lp_len | t_xmin | t_xmax | t_field3 | t_ctid | t_infomask2 | t_infomask | t_hoff | t_bits | t_oid | t_data |
+----+--------+----------+--------+--------+--------+----------+--------+-------------+------------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
|  1 |   8160 |        1 |     26 |   1012 |   1014 |        0 | (0,3)  |       16385 |        258 |     24 | NULL   |  NULL | \x0561 |
|  2 |   8128 |        1 |     26 |   1013 |      0 |        0 | (0,2)  |           1 |       2306 |     24 | NULL   |  NULL | \x0562 |
|  3 |   8096 |        1 |     26 |   1014 |      0 |        0 | (0,3)  |       32769 |      10242 |     24 | NULL   |  NULL | \x0563 |
+----+--------+----------+--------+--------+--------+----------+--------+-------------+------------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
(3 rows)

Time: 0.352 ms

anand@postgres # delete from test where data='c';
DELETE 1
Time: 1.542 ms
anand@postgres # select * from heap_page_items(get_raw_page('test',0));
+----+--------+----------+--------+--------+--------+----------+--------+-------------+------------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
| lp | lp_off | lp_flags | lp_len | t_xmin | t_xmax | t_field3 | t_ctid | t_infomask2 | t_infomask | t_hoff | t_bits | t_oid | t_data |
+----+--------+----------+--------+--------+--------+----------+--------+-------------+------------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
|  1 |   8160 |        1 |     26 |   1012 |   1014 |        0 | (0,3)  |       16385 |       1282 |     24 | NULL   |  NULL | \x0561 |
|  2 |   8128 |        1 |     26 |   1013 |      0 |        0 | (0,2)  |           1 |       2306 |     24 | NULL   |  NULL | \x0562 |
|  3 |   8096 |        1 |     26 |   1014 |   1015 |        0 | (0,3)  |       40961 |       8450 |     24 | NULL   |  NULL | \x0563 |
+----+--------+----------+--------+--------+--------+----------+--------+-------------+------------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
(3 rows)

Time: 0.342 ms
anand@postgres # vacuum test;
VACUUM
Time: 12.944 ms
anand@postgres # select * from heap_page_items(get_raw_page('test',0));
+----+--------+----------+--------+--------+--------+----------+--------+-------------+------------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
| lp | lp_off | lp_flags | lp_len | t_xmin | t_xmax | t_field3 | t_ctid | t_infomask2 | t_infomask | t_hoff | t_bits | t_oid | t_data |
+----+--------+----------+--------+--------+--------+----------+--------+-------------+------------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
|  1 |      0 |        0 |      0 |   NULL |   NULL |     NULL | NULL   |        NULL |       NULL |   NULL | NULL   |  NULL | NULL   |
|  2 |   8160 |        1 |     26 |   1013 |      0 |        0 | (0,2)  |           1 |       2306 |     24 | NULL   |  NULL | \x0562 |
|  3 |      0 |        0 |      0 |   NULL |   NULL |     NULL | NULL   |        NULL |       NULL |   NULL | NULL   |  NULL | NULL   |
+----+--------+----------+--------+--------+--------+----------+--------+-------------+------------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
(3 rows)

Time: 0.536 ms
anand@postgres # vacuum full test;
VACUUM
Time: 15.169 ms
anand@postgres # select * from heap_page_items(get_raw_page('test',0));
+----+--------+----------+--------+--------+--------+----------+--------+-------------+------------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
| lp | lp_off | lp_flags | lp_len | t_xmin | t_xmax | t_field3 | t_ctid | t_infomask2 | t_infomask | t_hoff | t_bits | t_oid | t_data |
+----+--------+----------+--------+--------+--------+----------+--------+-------------+------------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
|  1 |   8160 |        1 |     26 |   1013 |      0 |        0 | (0,1)  |           1 |       2818 |     24 | NULL   |  NULL | \x0562 |
+----+--------+----------+--------+--------+--------+----------+--------+-------------+------------+--------+--------+-------+--------+
(1 row)

Time: 0.561 ms
anand@postgres #

Recently in Prod db, I noticed a table with primary key index having ~3500 updates/hr and each update, updated 1 row with mean_time of ~2-3seconds. The updates were eligibile for HOT.

+---------+------------------------+-----------+-------+------------------+
| snap_id |      sample_time       |  queryid  | calls |    mean_time     |
+---------+------------------------+-----------+-------+------------------+
|      99 | 2018-04-03 14:00:01+00 | 983545275 |  3551 | 8624.70651816391 |
|     100 | 2018-04-03 15:00:00+00 | 983545275 |  3831 | 485.123798225008 |
|     103 | 2018-04-03 18:00:01+00 | 983545275 |  3567 | 8752.98942528735 |
|     104 | 2018-04-03 19:00:01+00 | 983545275 |  3445 |  1173.0251509434 |
|     105 | 2018-04-03 20:00:00+00 | 983545275 |  3897 | 906.002405953299 |

Modifying the fill-factor for the table to 50 (keeping 50% space free for updates),  improved the performance by 1000x.

anand@postgres # alter table user.cache set (fillfactor = 50);
ALTER TABLE
Time: 126.374 ms
anand@postgres # vacuum full user.cahce;
VACUUM
Time: 21284.498 ms (00:21.284)
anand@postgres #

Reducing the fill factor increases the table size as during insert some space in the page will be left unused to future updates.

Post Change SQL Peformance —

+---------+------------------------+-----------+-------+-----------+-----------------+
| snap_id |      sample_time       |  queryid  | calls | mean_time | shared_blks_hit |
+---------+------------------------+-----------+-------+-----------+-----------------+
|     529 | 2018-04-22 13:00:01+00 | 983545275 |  3788 |      0.89 |         3219353 |
|     530 | 2018-04-22 14:00:00+00 | 983545275 |  4009 |      0.88 |         3413391 |
|     531 | 2018-04-22 15:00:00+00 | 983545275 |  4021 |      0.91 |         3564540 |
|     532 | 2018-04-22 16:00:01+00 | 983545275 |  4005 |      1.12 |         3721869 |
|     533 | 2018-04-22 17:00:01+00 | 983545275 |  4093 |      1.07 |         3901729 |
|     534 | 2018-04-22 18:00:01+00 | 983545275 |  4033 |      0.98 |         4071757 |
|     535 | 2018-04-22 19:00:01+00 | 983545275 |  3773 |      1.38 |         4232251 |
|     536 | 2018-04-22 20:00:01+00 | 983545275 |  3856 |      1.23 |         4372074 |
|     537 | 2018-04-22 21:00:00+00 | 983545275 |  3978 |      1.07 |         4535671 |
+---------+------------------------+-----------+-------+-----------+-----------------+

+------------------+---------+------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+------------+
|       relname    | relsize |   tblsp    | seq_scan |  idx_scan   | n_tup_ins | n_tup_upd | n_tup_del |   total   | hot_rate | fillfactor |
+------------------+---------+------------+----------+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+------------+
|       cache      | 101 MB  | pg_default |       12 |     5926041 |     54404 |   1403579 |     59859 |   1923481 |    71.10 | 50         |

S3 Bucket – IllegalLocationConstraintException

A quick one !!

Creating bucket failed with “IllegalLocationConstraintException” —

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-33-128 ~]$ aws s3api create-bucket --bucket labtestrand --region us-west-2

An error occurred (IllegalLocationConstraintException) when calling the CreateBucket operation: The unspecified location constraint is incompatible for the region specific endpoint this request was sent to.

Solution —

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-33-128 ~]$
[ec2-user@ip-172-31-33-128 ~]$ aws s3api create-bucket --bucket labtestrand --region us-west-2 --create-bucket-configuration LocationConstraint=us-west-2
{
"Location": "http://labtestrand.s3.amazonaws.com/"
}
[ec2-user@ip-172-31-33-128 ~]$

Oracle to Postgres — Index Skip Scan

I have been working on Oracle to Postgres migration and it has been a fun ride.

One of the recent encounters during migration was performance issue in Postgres for a query, actually quite a simple query.

SELECT count(*) AS num_incidents FROM audit_cs acs INNER JOIN audit_changes ac ON acs.audit_change_id = ac.audit_change_set WHERE acs.object_id=$1 AND ac.path = 'Flag' AND ac.new_value = 'sign' 

Let’s look at the execution plan in Postgres

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                                                      QUERY PLAN                                                                                                       |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Aggregate  (cost=416855.54..416855.55 rows=1 width=8) (actual time=1885.330..1885.331 rows=1 loops=1)                                                                                                                 |
|   Output: count(*)                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
|   Buffers: shared hit=192660 read=3                                                                                                                                                                                   |
|   ->  Nested Loop  (cost=1.13..416855.54 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=1885.324..1885.324 rows=0 loops=1)                                                                                                              |
|         Buffers: shared hit=192660 read=3                                                                                                                                                                             |
|         ->  Index Scan using i_ot_oi_cacs_comp on user.audit_cs acs  (cost=0.56..416382.89 rows=38 width=8) (actual time=1870.631..1882.638 rows=3 loops=1)                                                           |
|               Output: acs.audit_change_id, acs.date_record_added, acs.object_type, acs.object_id, acs.note, acs.created_by_user_id                                                                                    |
|               Index Cond: (acs.object_id = '20896385'::numeric)                                                                                                                                                       |
|               Buffers: shared hit=192647 read=1                                                                                                                                                                       |
|         ->  Index Scan using i_acs_audit_changes on user.audit_changes ac  (cost=0.56..12.42 rows=2 width=8) (actual time=0.890..0.890 rows=0 loops=3)                                                                |
|               Output: ac.audit_change_id, ac.path, ac.old_value, ac.new_value, ac.audit_change_set, ac.created_by                                                                                                     |
|               Index Cond: (ac.audit_change_set = acs.audit_change_id)                                                                                                                                                 |
|               Filter: (((ac.path)::text = 'Flag'::text) AND ((ac.new_value)::text = 'sign'::text))                                                                                                                    |
|               Rows Removed by Filter: 1                                                                                                                                                                               |
|               Buffers: shared hit=13 read=2                                                                                                                                                                           |
| Planning time: 0.932 ms                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| Execution time: 1885.401 ms                                                                                                                                                                                           |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
(17 rows)

On a quick glance of the execution plan, it looks good as its reading the data using index, but to notice is the execution time of ~1.9secs and Buffers: shared hit of ~192k for index i_ot_oi_cacs_comp.

For the same sql, in Oracle, the optimizer uses Index Skip Scan on i_ot_oi_cacs_comp and completes within 2ms.

Does this give some hint 😉

Can the performance in Postgres be improved?

Firstly, lets review the definition of composite Index

"i_ot_oi_cacs_comp" btree (object_type, object_id)

Secondly, pg_stats gives a good understanding

select tablename, attname, inherited, null_frac, avg_width, n_distinct from pg_stats where tablename='audit_cs'

+------------------------+---------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+------------+
|       tablename        |       attname       | inherited | null_frac | avg_width | n_distinct |
+------------------------+---------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+------------+

|       audit_cs         | object_type         | f         |         0 |        14 |          1 |
|       audit_cs         | object_id           | f         |         0 |         6 |     750343 |

In the composte index, column object_type comes first and then object_id and Oracle handled it well with Index Skip Scan.

But do we really need object_type to be first column. The column object_id has much more distinct values when compared to object_type column. What happens if we change the column position for the index to

"i_oiot_cacs_comp" btree (object_id, object_type)

Lets the execution plan now

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                                                      QUERY PLAN                                                                                                       |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Aggregate  (cost=506.39..506.40 rows=1 width=8) (actual time=0.046..0.046 rows=1 loops=1)                                                                                                                             |
|   Output: count(*)                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
|   Buffers: shared hit=21                                                                                                                                                                                              |
|   ->  Nested Loop  (cost=1.13..506.39 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=0.043..0.043 rows=0 loops=1)                                                                                                                       |
|         Buffers: shared hit=21                                                                                                                                                                                        |
|         ->  Index Scan using i_oiot_cacs_comp on user.audit_cs acs  (cost=0.56..24.18 rows=39 width=8) (actual time=0.014..0.017 rows=3 loops=1)                                                                      |
|               Output: acs.audit_change_id, acs.date_record_added, acs.object_type, acs.object_id, acs.note, acs.created_by_user_id                                                                                    |
|               Index Cond: (acs.object_id = '20896385'::numeric)                                                                                                                                                       |
|               Buffers: shared hit=6                                                                                                                                                                                   |
|         ->  Index Scan using i_acs_audit_changes on user.audit_changes ac  (cost=0.56..12.34 rows=2 width=8) (actual time=0.007..0.007 rows=0 loops=3)                                                                |
|               Output: ac.audit_change_id, ac.path, ac.old_value, ac.new_value, ac.audit_change_set, ac.created_by                                                                                                     |
|               Index Cond: (ac.audit_change_set = acs.audit_change_id)                                                                                                                                                 |
|               Filter: (((ac.path)::text = 'Flag'::text) AND ((ac.new_value)::text = 'sign'::text))                                                                                                              |
|               Rows Removed by Filter: 1                                                                                                                                                                               |
|               Buffers: shared hit=15                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Planning time: 0.441 ms                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| Execution time: 0.092 ms                                                                                                                                                                                              |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
(17 rows)

Just with the simple change in column position, has reduced Buffer: Shared hits from 192K to 21 and execution time from ~2secs to less than 1ms.

+---------+------------------------+------------+------------------+---------------------------------------+-------------+-------+---------+----------------+
| snap_id |      sample_time       |  queryid   |    get_sqlid     |              short_query              | total_time  | calls |  mean   | percentage_cpu |
+---------+------------------------+------------+------------------+---------------------------------------+-------------+-------+---------+----------------+
|      41 | 2018-03-30 09:17:00+00 | 2563607162 | 11a53a3f4909b816 | SELECT count(*) AS num_incidents FROM | 39237541.19 | 16794 | 2336.40 |           7.59 |
|      42 | 2018-03-30 10:17:00+00 | 2563607162 | 11a53a3f4909b816 | SELECT count(*) AS num_incidents FROM | 35176645.84 | 16448 | 2138.66 |           6.80 |
|      43 | 2018-03-30 11:17:01+00 | 2563607162 | 11a53a3f4909b816 | SELECT count(*) AS num_incidents FROM | 29582400.11 | 15951 | 1854.58 |           5.72 |
|      44 | 2018-03-30 12:17:01+00 | 2563607162 | 11a53a3f4909b816 | SELECT count(*) AS num_incidents FROM | 34728899.68 | 16244 | 2137.95 |           6.72 |
|      46 | 2018-03-30 14:17:01+00 | 2563607162 | 11a53a3f4909b816 | SELECT count(*) AS num_incidents FROM | 37036501.98 | 16442 | 2252.55 |           7.16 |
|      47 | 2018-03-30 15:17:00+00 | 2563607162 | 11a53a3f4909b816 | SELECT count(*) AS num_incidents FROM | 35525730.37 | 15463 | 2297.47 |           6.87 |
|      49 | 2018-03-30 17:17:00+00 | 2563607162 | 11a53a3f4909b816 | SELECT count(*) AS num_incidents FROM | 28899674.51 | 12425 | 2325.93 |           5.59 |
|      50 | 2018-03-30 18:17:00+00 | 2563607162 | 11a53a3f4909b816 | SELECT count(*) AS num_incidents FROM | 35606631.89 | 14848 | 2398.08 |           6.89 |
|      51 | 2018-03-30 19:17:00+00 | 2563607162 | 11a53a3f4909b816 | SELECT count(*) AS num_incidents FROM | 36339708.61 | 16049 | 2264.30 |           7.03 |
|      52 | 2018-03-30 20:17:01+00 | 2563607162 | 11a53a3f4909b816 | SELECT count(*) AS num_incidents FROM | 29955685.60 | 13621 | 2199.23 |           5.79 |
|      73 | 2018-03-31 18:17:00+00 | 2563607162 | 11a53a3f4909b816 | SELECT count(*) AS num_incidents FROM |    22705.92 | 31999 |    0.71 |           0.00 |
|      77 | 2018-03-31 23:17:00+00 | 2563607162 | 11a53a3f4909b816 | SELECT count(*) AS num_incidents FROM |    13896.36 | 17489 |    0.79 |           0.00 |
|      78 | 2018-04-01 00:17:00+00 | 2563607162 | 11a53a3f4909b816 | SELECT count(*) AS num_incidents FROM |    21180.69 | 37533 |    0.56 |           0.00 |
|      89 | 2018-04-03 04:00:01+00 | 2563607162 | 11a53a3f4909b816 | SELECT count(*) AS num_incidents FROM |    37948.14 | 30610 |    1.24 |           0.01 |
|     106 | 2018-04-03 21:00:01+00 | 2563607162 | 11a53a3f4909b816 | SELECT count(*) AS num_incidents FROM |    17327.80 | 21625 |    0.80 |           0.00 |
|     107 | 2018-04-03 22:00:01+00 | 2563607162 | 11a53a3f4909b816 | SELECT count(*) AS num_incidents FROM |    10792.78 | 13785 |    0.78 |           0.00 |
|     163 | 2018-04-06 06:00:01+00 | 2563607162 | 11a53a3f4909b816 | SELECT count(*) AS num_incidents FROM |     9255.47 | 16829 |    0.55 |           0.00 |
+---------+------------------------+------------+------------------+---------------------------------------+-------------+-------+---------+----------------+

So, when migrating from Oracle to Postgres, make sure to keep an eye on SQLs which perform Index Skip Scan in Oracle.

Oracle and More…

It has been over a year I wrote my last blog post. I would admit I was being lazy to write, but the good part is not anymore !!

I plan to take out some time and write at least 2 blogs every month and share my learning with the community and to learn from the community.

With the current pace of change in technology, it very important to keep up with it, though sometimes it just seems really difficult.

For past few months, I have been focusing more on Postgres, Python and AWS technologies and going forward I plan to write more on these technologies.

Now, better I get started writing a technical blog !!

Happy Learning!!

Connecting to PostgreSQL

To connect to PostgreSQL, the following parameters are required:

1. Host or Host Address
2. Port
3. Database Name
4. User
5. Password

As mentioned, in my earlier post, like sqlplus in oracle, PostgreSQL has “psql”.
To connect any PostgreSQL db, you can use

1. psql
2. pgAdmin4
3. phpPgAdmin

Using psql

The default port number for PostgreSQL is 5432.

i) psql -h hostname -p port -d dbname -U username

bash-3.2$ psql -h localhost -p 5432 -d postgres -U anand
psql (9.6.1)
Type "help" for help.

postgres=#


ii) bash-3.2$ psql postgres
psql (9.6.1)
Type "help" for help.

postgres=#
postgres=# select current_user;
 current_user
--------------
 anand
(1 row)


iii) URI format

bash-3.2$ psql postgresql://localhost:5432/postgres
psql (9.6.1)
Type "help" for help.

postgres=#
postgres=# select current_database();
 current_database
------------------
 postgres
(1 row)

postgres=# select inet_server_addr(), inet_server_port();
 inet_server_addr | inet_server_port
------------------+------------------
 ::1              |             5432
(1 row)

postgres=# select version();
                                                    version
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 PostgreSQL 9.6.1 on x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0, compiled by Apple LLVM version 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.42.1), 64-bit
(1 row)

postgres=#
postgres=# \conninfo
You are connected to database "postgres" as user "anand" on host "localhost" at port "5432".
postgres=#

PgAdmin4 and phpPgAdmin are Graphical Administrations tools. For more details

https://www.pgadmin.org/

Please note, when connecting with PgAdmin you should uncheck the “Strore Password” box.

A password file contains 5 fields

host:port:dbname:user:password

The password file is located using an env variable PGPASSFILE. If its not set, then default filename and locationfor *nix system is ~/.pgpass. Make sure the file permission is 0600.

ls -lrt /Users/anand/.pgpass

In case the file is present, and you try to connect using psql, it won’t prompt for password.

To check connection status of PostgreSQL server, use pg_isready

bash-3.2$ pg_isready -h localhost -p 5433
localhost:5433 - no response
bash-3.2$ pg_isready -h localhost -p 5432
localhost:5432 - accepting connections
bash-3.2$

Next, I will writing on exploring the PostgreSQL db.