Opened 18 years ago

Closed 18 years ago

#3459 closed (fixed)

SET TIME ZONE called too often for postgresql_psycopg2 backend

Reported by: Jack Moffitt <metajack@…> Owned by: Adrian Holovaty
Component: Database layer (models, ORM) Version: dev
Severity: Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Ready for checkin
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Analyzing our database logs I found that 25% of all traffic were calls to SET TIME ZONE. This is currently called for every cursor when using the postgrsql_psycopg2 backend. This only needs to be called when the connection is established. All cursors will get the correct timezone if it is set in the connection.

I've attached a patch which calls SET TIME ZONE only on new connections. This eliminates a lot of wasted database traffic and can result in a large performance gain for loaded systems using this backend.

Attachments (3)

settimezone.diff (1.1 KB ) - added by Jack Moffitt <metajack@…> 18 years ago.
patch to call SET TIME ZONE only on new connections instead of for every cursor
combined.diff (1.5 KB ) - added by Jack Moffitt <metajack@…> 18 years ago.
updated patch combined with fix for #3460
tztest.py (657 bytes ) - added by Jack Moffitt <metajack@…> 18 years ago.
test script

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Change History (7)

by Jack Moffitt <metajack@…>, 18 years ago

Attachment: settimezone.diff added

patch to call SET TIME ZONE only on new connections instead of for every cursor

comment:1 by Jack Moffitt <metajack@…>, 18 years ago

Note: According to postgresql 8.1 docs, this is correct: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-set.html

The SET will take effect for the entire session unless something else calls set. This is regardless of whether it is inside a transaction or not. However, the patch needs to be changed to do a COMMIT otherwise the change will not take effect if this cursor's first transaction ends in a rollback. I've attached a modified patch which also combines the fix for #3460, which needs a similar setup.

I've also attached a test script to show that this works regardless of the isolation level used.

by Jack Moffitt <metajack@…>, 18 years ago

Attachment: combined.diff added

updated patch combined with fix for #3460

by Jack Moffitt <metajack@…>, 18 years ago

Attachment: tztest.py added

test script

comment:2 by Chris Beaven, 18 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedReady for checkin

According to docs this looks right and the code looks good.

There may be some gotchas that haven't been considered, but I'll let a committer mull over those and change the state back if required. :P

comment:3 by Marc Fargas <telenieko@…>, 18 years ago

For the record:
Discussion about that was taken in: there

comment:4 by Jacob, 18 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

(In [4573]) Fixed #3459: Django no longer runs SET TIME ZONE for every query when using Postgres. This should result in a pretty noticible speedup for Postgres users, so many thanks to Jack Moffitt for the patch.

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