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  2. MDEV-28984

Optimizer picking the wrong table for order of join

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    • Bug
    • Status: Open (View Workflow)
    • Major
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • 10.4.22, 10.6.8
    • 10.5, 10.6
    • Optimizer
    • None
    • debian bullseye

    Description

      For Wikimedia production, we have recentchanges table that is rather short but it joins to large tables such as actor ("user" basically). Suddenly in a rather important wiki, the frontend to this table started timing out.

      Here is the query:

      SELECT  rc_id,rc_timestamp,rc_namespace,rc_title,rc_minor,rc_bot,rc_new,rc_cur_id,rc_this_oldid,rc_last_oldid,rc_type,rc_source,rc_patrolled,rc_ip,rc_old_len,rc_new_len,rc_deleted,rc_logid,rc_log_type,rc_log_action,rc_params,rc_actor,recentchanges_actor.actor_user AS `rc_user`,recentchanges_actor.actor_name AS `rc_user_text`,comment_rc_comment.comment_text AS `rc_comment_text`,comment_rc_comment.comment_data AS `rc_comment_data`,comment_rc_comment.comment_id AS `rc_comment_cid`,rc_title,rc_namespace,page_latest,(SELECT  GROUP_CONCAT(ctd_name SEPARATOR ',')  FROM `change_tag` JOIN `change_tag_def` ON ((ct_tag_id=ctd_id))   WHERE ct_rc_id=rc_id  ) AS `ts_tags`  FROM `recentchanges` JOIN `actor` `recentchanges_actor` ON ((actor_id=rc_actor)) JOIN `comment` `comment_rc_comment` ON ((comment_rc_comment.comment_id = rc_comment_id)) LEFT JOIN `page` ON ((rc_cur_id=page_id))   WHERE rc_bot = 0 AND (rc_type != 6) AND (rc_source != 'wb') AND (rc_namespace NOT IN (1198,1199,866,867)) AND (rc_timestamp >= '20220622213111') AND rc_new IN (0,1)   ORDER BY rc_timestamp DESC LIMIT 50
      

      (Formatted query: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P30631)

      Explain:

      *************************** 1. row ***************************
                 id: 1
        select_type: PRIMARY
              table: recentchanges_actor
               type: ALL
      possible_keys: PRIMARY
                key: NULL
            key_len: NULL
                ref: NULL
               rows: 24679668
           filtered: 100.00
              Extra: Using temporary; Using filesort
      *************************** 2. row ***************************
                 id: 1
        select_type: PRIMARY
              table: recentchanges
               type: ref
      possible_keys: rc_timestamp,rc_name_type_patrolled_timestamp,rc_ns_actor,rc_actor,rc_namespace_title_timestamp,rc_new_name_timestamp
                key: rc_actor
            key_len: 8
                ref: metawiki.recentchanges_actor.actor_id
               rows: 16
           filtered: 100.00
              Extra: Using index condition; Using where
      *************************** 3. row ***************************
                 id: 1
        select_type: PRIMARY
              table: page
               type: eq_ref
      possible_keys: PRIMARY
                key: PRIMARY
            key_len: 4
                ref: metawiki.recentchanges.rc_cur_id
               rows: 1
           filtered: 100.00
              Extra: 
      *************************** 4. row ***************************
                 id: 1
        select_type: PRIMARY
              table: comment_rc_comment
               type: eq_ref
      possible_keys: PRIMARY
                key: PRIMARY
            key_len: 8
                ref: metawiki.recentchanges.rc_comment_id
               rows: 1
           filtered: 100.00
              Extra: 
      *************************** 5. row ***************************
                 id: 2
        select_type: DEPENDENT SUBQUERY
              table: change_tag
               type: ref
      possible_keys: ct_rc_tag_id,ct_tag_id_id
                key: ct_rc_tag_id
            key_len: 5
                ref: metawiki.recentchanges.rc_id
               rows: 1
           filtered: 100.00
              Extra: Using index
      *************************** 6. row ***************************
                 id: 2
        select_type: DEPENDENT SUBQUERY
              table: change_tag_def
               type: eq_ref
      possible_keys: PRIMARY
                key: PRIMARY
            key_len: 4
                ref: metawiki.change_tag.ct_tag_id
               rows: 1
           filtered: 100.00
              Extra: 
      6 rows in set, 2 warnings (0.002 sec)
      

      Analyze:

      {
        "query_block": {
          "select_id": 1,
          "r_loops": 1,
          "r_total_time_ms": 70227.23238,
          "filesort": {
            "sort_key": "recentchanges.rc_timestamp desc",
            "r_loops": 1,
            "r_total_time_ms": 8.816484672,
            "r_limit": 50,
            "r_used_priority_queue": true,
            "r_output_rows": 51,
            "r_sort_mode": "sort_key,rowid",
            "temporary_table": {
              "table": {
                "table_name": "recentchanges_actor",
                "access_type": "ALL",
                "possible_keys": ["PRIMARY"],
                "r_loops": 1,
                "rows": 24679658,
                "r_rows": 35749188,
                "r_table_time_ms": 14751.19318,
                "r_other_time_ms": 3142.874176,
                "filtered": 100,
                "r_filtered": 100
              },
              "table": {
                "table_name": "recentchanges",
                "access_type": "ref",
                "possible_keys": [
                  "rc_timestamp",
                  "rc_name_type_patrolled_timestamp",
                  "rc_ns_actor",
                  "rc_actor",
                  "rc_namespace_title_timestamp",
                  "rc_new_name_timestamp"
                ],
                "key": "rc_actor",
                "key_length": "8",
                "used_key_parts": ["rc_actor"],
                "ref": ["metawiki.recentchanges_actor.actor_id"],
                "r_loops": 35749188,
                "rows": 16,
                "r_rows": 0.001382353,
                "r_table_time_ms": 51395.8372,
                "r_other_time_ms": 767.0172278,
                "filtered": 100,
                "r_filtered": 28.39451212,
                "index_condition": "recentchanges.rc_timestamp >= '20220622213111'",
                "attached_condition": "recentchanges.rc_bot = 0 and recentchanges.rc_type <> 6 and recentchanges.rc_source <> 'wb' and recentchanges.rc_namespace not in (1198,1199,866,867) and recentchanges.rc_new in (0,1)"
              },
              "table": {
                "table_name": "page",
                "access_type": "eq_ref",
                "possible_keys": ["PRIMARY"],
                "key": "PRIMARY",
                "key_length": "4",
                "used_key_parts": ["page_id"],
                "ref": ["metawiki.recentchanges.rc_cur_id"],
                "r_loops": 14032,
                "rows": 1,
                "r_rows": 0.81299886,
                "r_table_time_ms": 27.33096909,
                "r_other_time_ms": 4.45577502,
                "filtered": 100,
                "r_filtered": 100
              },
              "table": {
                "table_name": "comment_rc_comment",
                "access_type": "eq_ref",
                "possible_keys": ["PRIMARY"],
                "key": "PRIMARY",
                "key_length": "8",
                "used_key_parts": ["comment_id"],
                "ref": ["metawiki.recentchanges.rc_comment_id"],
                "r_loops": 14032,
                "rows": 1,
                "r_rows": 1,
                "r_table_time_ms": 26.1279084,
                "r_other_time_ms": 10.89051682,
                "filtered": 100,
                "r_filtered": 100
              },
              "subqueries": [
                {
                  "expression_cache": {
                    "state": "disabled",
                    "r_loops": 0,
                    "query_block": {
                      "select_id": 2,
                      "r_loops": 14032,
                      "r_total_time_ms": 66.74385352,
                      "table": {
                        "table_name": "change_tag",
                        "access_type": "ref",
                        "possible_keys": ["ct_rc_tag_id", "ct_tag_id_id"],
                        "key": "ct_rc_tag_id",
                        "key_length": "5",
                        "used_key_parts": ["ct_rc_id"],
                        "ref": ["metawiki.recentchanges.rc_id"],
                        "r_loops": 14032,
                        "rows": 1,
                        "r_rows": 0.729190422,
                        "r_table_time_ms": 38.10037738,
                        "r_other_time_ms": 7.266748412,
                        "filtered": 100,
                        "r_filtered": 100,
                        "using_index": true
                      },
                      "table": {
                        "table_name": "change_tag_def",
                        "access_type": "eq_ref",
                        "possible_keys": ["PRIMARY"],
                        "key": "PRIMARY",
                        "key_length": "4",
                        "used_key_parts": ["ctd_id"],
                        "ref": ["metawiki.change_tag.ct_tag_id"],
                        "r_loops": 10232,
                        "rows": 1,
                        "r_rows": 1,
                        "r_table_time_ms": 10.34536649,
                        "r_other_time_ms": 3.346125674,
                        "filtered": 100,
                        "r_filtered": 100
                      }
                    }
                  }
                }
              ]
            }
          }
        }
      }
      

      You can also make queries to this table (a bit different version but pretty similar) on https://quarry.wmcloud.org (the database being metawiki_p)

      Here is the ticket in wikimedia: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T311360

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