[Vtigercrm-developers] calendar performance bottleneck

Adam Heinz amh at metricwise.net
Thu Feb 9 13:32:57 PST 2012


Up until recently, we hadn't used recurring events.  Now that we're
starting to get a decent number of them in the system, I've started
seeing some degrading performance.  (We use the calendar a LOT!)  I
explained the SQL created by calendarLayout.php getEventList() and
didn't like what I saw.  (Exhibit A)  Type ALL!  It's doing a table
scan on every page load!  I have been fiddling around a bit and hit
upon the idea of splitting the recurring and non-recurring parts of
the query into opposing halves of a UNION and added an index on
recurringdate.  (Exhibit B)  Check out how the query planner inverted
the table order to get at that juicy recurringdate index.  I have only
profiled this, not tried it.  :)  I will report back after I coerce
PHP to generate the SQL I hand wrote and load test the result.  As
convenient as mkCountQuery() and fixPostgresQuery() are, they do not
play nicely with unions.

EXHIBIT A

EXPLAIN EXTENDED SELECT vtiger_groups.groupname,
vtiger_users.user_name,vtiger_crmentity.smownerid,
vtiger_crmentity.crmid, vtiger_activity.*
FROM vtiger_activity
INNER JOIN vtiger_crmentity ON vtiger_crmentity.crmid =
vtiger_activity.activityid
LEFT JOIN vtiger_groups ON vtiger_groups.groupid = vtiger_crmentity.smownerid
LEFT JOIN vtiger_users ON vtiger_users.id = vtiger_crmentity.smownerid
LEFT JOIN vtiger_recurringevents ON vtiger_recurringevents.activityid
= vtiger_activity.activityid
WHERE vtiger_crmentity.deleted = 0
AND (vtiger_activity.activitytype not in ('Emails','Task'))
AND (((vtiger_activity.date_start >= '2012-02-09' AND
vtiger_activity.due_date <= '2012-02-09')
AND (vtiger_recurringevents.activityid is NULL))
OR (vtiger_recurringevents.recurringdate BETWEEN '2012-02-09' AND
'2012-02-09'))\G

*************************** 1. row ***************************
           id: 1
  select_type: SIMPLE
        table: vtiger_activity
         type: ALL
possible_keys: PRIMARY,activity_activityid_subject_idx,activity_activitytype_date_start_idx,activity_date_start_due_date_idx,activity_date_start_time_start_idx,activity_date_start_idx
          key: NULL
      key_len: NULL
          ref: NULL
         rows: 42239
     filtered: 50.00
        Extra: Using where
*************************** 2. row ***************************
           id: 1
  select_type: SIMPLE
        table: vtiger_crmentity
         type: eq_ref
possible_keys: PRIMARY,crmentity_deleted_smownerid_idx
          key: PRIMARY
      key_len: 4
          ref: wwamh1.vtiger_activity.activityid
         rows: 1
     filtered: 100.00
        Extra: Using where
*************************** 3. row ***************************
           id: 1
  select_type: SIMPLE
        table: vtiger_groups
         type: eq_ref
possible_keys: PRIMARY
          key: PRIMARY
      key_len: 4
          ref: wwamh1.vtiger_crmentity.smownerid
         rows: 1
     filtered: 100.00
        Extra:
*************************** 4. row ***************************
           id: 1
  select_type: SIMPLE
        table: vtiger_users
         type: eq_ref
possible_keys: PRIMARY
          key: PRIMARY
      key_len: 4
          ref: wwamh1.vtiger_crmentity.smownerid
         rows: 1
     filtered: 100.00
        Extra:
*************************** 5. row ***************************
           id: 1
  select_type: SIMPLE
        table: vtiger_recurringevents
         type: ref
possible_keys: fk_1_vtiger_recurringevents
          key: fk_1_vtiger_recurringevents
      key_len: 4
          ref: wwamh1.vtiger_crmentity.crmid
         rows: 6
     filtered: 100.00
        Extra: Using where
5 rows in set, 1 warning (0.00 sec)

EXHIBIT B

ALTER TABLE vtiger_recurringevents
ADD INDEX recurringevents_recurringdate_idx (recurringdate);

EXPLAIN EXTENDED SELECT vtiger_groups.groupname,
vtiger_users.user_name,vtiger_crmentity.smownerid,
vtiger_crmentity.crmid, vtiger_activity.* FROM vtiger_activity INNER
JOIN vtiger_crmentity ON vtiger_crmentity.crmid =
vtiger_activity.activityid LEFT JOIN vtiger_groups ON
vtiger_groups.groupid = vtiger_crmentity.smownerid LEFT JOIN
vtiger_users ON vtiger_users.id = vtiger_crmentity.smownerid LEFT
OUTER JOIN vtiger_recurringevents ON vtiger_recurringevents.activityid
= vtiger_activity.activityid WHERE vtiger_crmentity.deleted = 0 AND
(vtiger_activity.activitytype not in ('Emails','Task')) AND
(vtiger_recurringevents.recurringdate BETWEEN '2012-02-09' AND
'2012-02-09') AND vtiger_crmentity.smownerid = 259 UNION SELECT
vtiger_groups.groupname,
vtiger_users.user_name,vtiger_crmentity.smownerid,
vtiger_crmentity.crmid, vtiger_activity.* FROM vtiger_activity INNER
JOIN vtiger_crmentity ON vtiger_crmentity.crmid =
vtiger_activity.activityid LEFT JOIN vtiger_groups ON
vtiger_groups.groupid = vtiger_crmentity.smownerid LEFT JOIN
vtiger_users ON vtiger_users.id = vtiger_crmentity.smownerid LEFT
OUTER JOIN vtiger_recurringevents ON vtiger_recurringevents.activityid
= vtiger_activity.activityid WHERE vtiger_crmentity.deleted = 0 AND
(vtiger_activity.activitytype not in ('Emails','Task')) AND
(vtiger_activity.date_start >= '2012-02-09' AND
vtiger_activity.due_date <= '2012-02-09') AND
vtiger_crmentity.smownerid = 259\G


*************************** 1. row ***************************
           id: 1
  select_type: PRIMARY
        table: vtiger_recurringevents
         type: ref
possible_keys: fk_1_vtiger_recurringevents,recurringevents_recurringdate_idx
          key: recurringevents_recurringdate_idx
      key_len: 4
          ref: const
         rows: 1
     filtered: 100.00
        Extra: Using where
*************************** 2. row ***************************
           id: 1
  select_type: PRIMARY
        table: vtiger_crmentity
         type: eq_ref
possible_keys: PRIMARY,crmentity_deleted_smownerid_idx,crm_ownerid_del_setype_idx
          key: PRIMARY
      key_len: 4
          ref: wwamh1.vtiger_recurringevents.activityid
         rows: 1
     filtered: 100.00
        Extra: Using where
*************************** 3. row ***************************
           id: 1
  select_type: PRIMARY
        table: vtiger_groups
         type: const
possible_keys: PRIMARY
          key: PRIMARY
      key_len: 4
          ref: const
         rows: 1
     filtered: 100.00
        Extra:
*************************** 4. row ***************************
           id: 1
  select_type: PRIMARY
        table: vtiger_users
         type: const
possible_keys: PRIMARY
          key: PRIMARY
      key_len: 4
          ref: const
         rows: 1
     filtered: 100.00
        Extra:
*************************** 5. row ***************************
           id: 1
  select_type: PRIMARY
        table: vtiger_activity
         type: eq_ref
possible_keys: PRIMARY,activity_activityid_subject_idx,activity_activitytype_date_start_idx
          key: PRIMARY
      key_len: 4
          ref: wwamh1.vtiger_recurringevents.activityid
         rows: 1
     filtered: 100.00
        Extra: Using where
*************************** 6. row ***************************
           id: 2
  select_type: UNION
        table: vtiger_crmentity
         type: ref
possible_keys: PRIMARY,crmentity_deleted_smownerid_idx,crm_ownerid_del_setype_idx
          key: crmentity_deleted_smownerid_idx
      key_len: 8
          ref: const,const
         rows: 3
     filtered: 100.00
        Extra: Using index
*************************** 7. row ***************************
           id: 2
  select_type: UNION
        table: vtiger_groups
         type: const
possible_keys: PRIMARY
          key: PRIMARY
      key_len: 4
          ref: const
         rows: 1
     filtered: 100.00
        Extra:
*************************** 8. row ***************************
           id: 2
  select_type: UNION
        table: vtiger_users
         type: const
possible_keys: PRIMARY
          key: PRIMARY
      key_len: 4
          ref: const
         rows: 1
     filtered: 100.00
        Extra:
*************************** 9. row ***************************
           id: 2
  select_type: UNION
        table: vtiger_activity
         type: eq_ref
possible_keys: PRIMARY,activity_activityid_subject_idx,activity_activitytype_date_start_idx,activity_date_start_due_date_idx,activity_date_start_time_start_idx,activity_date_start_idx
          key: PRIMARY
      key_len: 4
          ref: wwamh1.vtiger_crmentity.crmid
         rows: 1
     filtered: 100.00
        Extra: Using where
*************************** 10. row ***************************
           id: 2
  select_type: UNION
        table: vtiger_recurringevents
         type: ref
possible_keys: fk_1_vtiger_recurringevents
          key: fk_1_vtiger_recurringevents
      key_len: 4
          ref: wwamh1.vtiger_crmentity.crmid
         rows: 6
     filtered: 100.00
        Extra: Using index
*************************** 11. row ***************************
           id: NULL
  select_type: UNION RESULT
        table: <union1,2>
         type: ALL
possible_keys: NULL
          key: NULL
      key_len: NULL
          ref: NULL
         rows: NULL
     filtered: NULL
        Extra:



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