- Created by Karolin Hemmingsson, last modified by Ann Base on Jul 09, 2020
This article describes troubleshooting steps that can be used if end users in Smart ID Digital Access component experiences slow logon.
Problem
If the login for end users is slow, and this cannot be explained by other system circumstances, then the reason could be that the auto maintenance function in Postgres fails and does not clean up the database. This results in bloated indexes and also ghost rows which are rows that have been deleted but not yet garbage collected. This can result in slow login for end users.
Solution
Enter these commands:
ssh
into the appliancesudo bash
cd /opt/postgres/9.1/bin
sudo -u postgres ./psql
\c hag
Copy and execute this function/statement:
SELECT
current_database(), schemaname, tablename, /*reltuples::bigint, relpages::bigint, otta,*/
ROUND((CASE WHEN otta=0 THEN 0.0 ELSE sml.relpages::FLOAT/otta END)::NUMERIC,1) AS tbloat,
CASE WHEN relpages < otta THEN 0 ELSE bs*(sml.relpages-otta)::BIGINT END AS wastedbytes,
iname, /*ituples::bigint, ipages::bigint, iotta,*/
ROUND((CASE WHEN iotta=0 OR ipages=0 THEN 0.0 ELSE ipages::FLOAT/iotta END)::NUMERIC,1) AS ibloat,
CASE WHEN ipages < iotta THEN 0 ELSE bs*(ipages-iotta) END AS wastedibytes
FROM (
SELECT
schemaname, tablename, cc.reltuples, cc.relpages, bs,
CEIL((cc.reltuples*((datahdr+ma-
(CASE WHEN datahdr%ma=0 THEN ma ELSE datahdr%ma END))+nullhdr2+4))/(bs-20::FLOAT)) AS otta,
COALESCE(c2.relname,'?') AS iname, COALESCE(c2.reltuples,0) AS ituples, COALESCE(c2.relpages,0) AS ipages,
COALESCE(CEIL((c2.reltuples*(datahdr-12))/(bs-20::FLOAT)),0) AS iotta -- very rough approximation, assumes all cols
FROM (
SELECT
ma,bs,schemaname,tablename,
(datawidth+(hdr+ma-(CASE WHEN hdr%ma=0 THEN ma ELSE hdr%ma END)))::NUMERIC AS datahdr,
(maxfracsum*(nullhdr+ma-(CASE WHEN nullhdr%ma=0 THEN ma ELSE nullhdr%ma END))) AS nullhdr2
FROM (
SELECT
schemaname, tablename, hdr, ma, bs,
SUM((1-null_frac)*avg_width) AS datawidth,
MAX(null_frac) AS maxfracsum,
hdr+(
SELECT 1+COUNT(*)/8
FROM pg_stats s2
WHERE null_frac<>0 AND s2.schemaname = s.schemaname AND s2.tablename = s.tablename
) AS nullhdr
FROM pg_stats s, (
SELECT
(SELECT current_setting('block_size')::NUMERIC) AS bs,
CASE WHEN SUBSTRING(v,12,3) IN ('8.0','8.1','8.2') THEN 27 ELSE 23 END AS hdr,
CASE WHEN v ~ 'mingw32' THEN 8 ELSE 4 END AS ma
FROM (SELECT version() AS v) AS foo
) AS constants
GROUP BY 1,2,3,4,5
) AS foo
) AS rs
JOIN pg_class cc ON cc.relname = rs.tablename
JOIN pg_namespace nn ON cc.relnamespace = nn.oid AND nn.nspname = rs.schemaname AND nn.nspname <> 'information_schema'
LEFT JOIN pg_index i ON indrelid = cc.oid
LEFT JOIN pg_class c2 ON c2.oid = i.indexrelid
) AS sml
ORDER BY wastedbytes DESC;- If the output shows a lot of (several MB) unused space in the tables, auto maintenance is not functioning. Continue with the next step: to free up space and restart the database.
If If auto maintenance is not functioning (see instruction above), run this command (after creating a backup):
VACUUM FULL;
If this command does not complete within 30 seconds press CTRL+C and exit to bash with:
\q
Enter this command:
/etc/init.d/postgres-9.1-openscg restart
And then enter these commands:
sudo -u postgres ./psql
\c hag
Run this command again:
VACUUM FULL;
Run the function/statement regarding auto maintenance again (see instruction above) to confirm that Vacuum has functioned properly.