[postgis-users] Performance boost with ST_ValueCount() - wondering why

[Paul Ramsey]

EXPLAIN ANALYZE the query.
My data-free guess is that, since you’ve got an aggregate function in there, is you’re getting a parallel plan under the aggregate, that’s something you wouldn’t get in 9.6 but would in 12. I don’t think there’s been any substantial change in the PostGIS raster code, so my guess is parallelism in PostgreSQL is the “culprit”.

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> On Jan 9, 2020, at 12:47 PM, Shira Bezalel <shira at sfei.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi List,
> 
> This is a "yeah, but why?" type of question. 
> 
> I'm testing an upgrade from
> 
> Postgres 9.6 and PostGIS 2.3
> 
> to 
> 
> Postgres 12.1 and PostGIS 3.0
> 
> One of our queries has gone from about 80 seconds to 30 seconds on the new releases, which is great, but I'm just trying to figure out why. I realize there are a host of different reasons why performance changes may result across different versions and servers, but just wondering if it's related to a specific performance enhancement in Postgres or PostGIS. Can't seem to find anything in the release notes that would explain it.
> 
> I've narrowed down the improvement to the part of the larger query that issues an ST_ValueCount() against a large raster and then sums the results. I can replicate the improvement with this simpler query subset:
> 
> SELECT pvc.value, SUM(pvc.count) AS sum 
> FROM 
> (SELECT (ST_ValueCount(cv.rast, 1)).* 
> FROM calveg_whrtype_20m AS cv) AS pvc 
> GROUP BY pvc.value
> 
> 9.6 plan
> 12.0 plan
> 
> Anything jump out as the reason for the improved plan in terms of changes to Postgres or PostGIS? Something to do with the HashAggregate it seems, but not sure why. And yes, this may have nothing to do with PostGIS per se, so feel free to point me over to the Postgres Performance list, if so. Just thought I'd start here since the raster function is involved. 
> 
> Thanks much!
> Shira
> 
> 
> 
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