Foros grandes con más de 1 millón de publicaciones, ¿cómo funciona tu búsqueda?

Estamos en AWS. Los foros se ejecutan en 4 instancias, creo que t3.large, es decir, 4 vCPU y 16 GB de RAM. Ejecutamos Kubernetes en una imagen Docker personalizada. Nuestra base de datos está en su propia instancia, m4.large, es decir, 2 vCPU y 8 GB de RAM. La RAM en las instancias de la base de datos podría ser sin duda el cuello de botella.

Las consultas que están agotando el tiempo de espera son generalmente términos más genéricos, palabras sueltas. Hemos tenido algunas que se ejecutaron durante más de 60 segundos. Ahora, también hemos visto un aumento del tráfico en nuestro sitio web en el último mes. El mes pasado, el tráfico mes a mes aumentó un 40% respecto al mes anterior. También pasamos de la v1.9 a la v2.4 durante ese tiempo, y sé que desde la 1.9, la Búsqueda ha añadido la búsqueda con autocompletado, así que asumo que eso genera más carga en el servidor de la base de datos.

Realizamos un análisis de consultas y la siguiente consulta se ejecutó entre 20 y 60 segundos:

`SELECT "posts".*
FROM "posts"
JOIN (
    SELECT *, row_number() over() row_number
    FROM (
        SELECT topics.id, min(posts.post_number) post_number
        FROM "posts"
        INNER JOIN "post_search_data" ON "post_search_data"."post_id" = "posts"."id"
        INNER JOIN "topics" ON "topics"."id" = "posts"."topic_id" AND ("topics"."deleted_at" IS NULL)
        LEFT JOIN categories ON categories.id = topics.category_id
        WHERE 
            ("posts"."deleted_at" IS NULL)
            AND "posts"."post_type" IN (1, 2, 3)
            AND (topics.visible)
            AND (topics.archetype <> 'private_message')
            AND (post_search_data.search_data @@ TO_TSQUERY('english', '''a'':*ABD & ''price'':*ABD'))
            AND (categories.id NOT IN (SELECT categories.id WHERE categories.search_priority = 1))
            AND ((categories.id IS NULL) OR (NOT categories.read_restricted))
        GROUP BY topics.id
        ORDER BY
            MAX((
                TS_RANK_CD(
                    post_search_data.search_data,
                    TO_TSQUERY('english', '''a'':*ABD & ''price'':*ABD'),
                    1|32
                ) * (
                    CASE categories.search_priority
                    WHEN 2
                    THEN 0.6
                    WHEN 3
                    THEN 0.8
                    WHEN 4
                    THEN 1.2
                    WHEN 5
                    THEN 1.4
                    ELSE
                    CASE
                        WHEN topics.closed
                        THEN 0.9
                        ELSE 1
                        END
                    END
                )
            )) DESC,
            topics.bumped_at DESC
        LIMIT 6
        OFFSET 0
    ) xxx
) x ON x.id = posts.topic_id AND x.post_number = posts.post_number
WHERE ("posts"."deleted_at" IS NULL)
ORDER BY row_number;

---

 Sort  (cost=495214.55..495214.56 rows=1 width=1177) (actual time=20529.725..20529.727 rows=6 loops=1)
   Sort Key: (row_number() OVER (?))
   Sort Method: quicksort  Memory: 29kB
   ->  Nested Loop  (cost=495164.08..495214.54 rows=1 width=1177) (actual time=20525.899..20529.703 rows=6 loops=1)
         ->  WindowAgg  (cost=495163.65..495163.80 rows=6 width=16) (actual time=20520.976..20521.078 rows=6 loops=1)
               ->  Limit  (cost=495163.65..495163.66 rows=6 width=24) (actual time=20520.969..20521.063 rows=6 loops=1)
                     ->  Sort  (cost=495163.65..495232.24 rows=27438 width=24) (actual time=20520.967..20520.969 rows=6 loops=1)
                           Sort Key: (max((ts_rank_cd(post_search_data.search_data, '''price'':*ABD'::tsquery, 33) * (CASE categories.search_priority WHEN 2 THEN 0.6 WHEN 3 THEN 0.8 WHEN 4 THEN 1.2 WHEN 5 THEN 1.4 ELSE CASE WHEN topics.closed THEN 0.9 ELSE '1'::numeric END END)::double precision))) DESC, topics.bumped_at DESC
                           Sort Method: top-N heapsort  Memory: 25kB
                           ->  GroupAggregate  (cost=493642.90..494671.83 rows=27438 width=24) (actual time=19082.214..20506.763 rows=32951 loops=1)
                                 Group Key: topics.id
                                 ->  Sort  (cost=493642.90..493711.50 rows=27438 width=400) (actual time=19082.184..19283.907 rows=191436 loops=1)
                                       Sort Key: topics.id
                                       Sort Method: external merge  Disk: 77632kB
                                       ->  Hash Left Join  (cost=36655.60..486646.69 rows=27438 width=400) (actual time=1562.696..18611.724 rows=191436 loops=1)
                                             Hash Cond: (topics.category_id = categories.id)
                                             Filter: (((categories.id IS NULL) OR (NOT categories.read_restricted)) AND (NOT (SubPlan 1)))
                                             ->  Gather  (cost=36645.63..486471.60 rows=58991 width=400) (actual time=1562.623..18249.349 rows=191436 loops=1)
                                                   Workers Planned: 2
                                                   Workers Launched: 2
                                                   ->  Nested Loop  (cost=35645.63..479572.50 rows=24580 width=400) (actual time=1556.547..18541.793 rows=63812 loops=3)
                                                         ->  Hash Join  (cost=35645.20..328688.61 rows=157831 width=25) (actual time=1551.912..13356.416 rows=285279 loops=3)
                                                               Hash Cond: (posts_1.topic_id = topics.id)
                                                               ->  Parallel Seq Scan on posts posts_1  (cost=0.00..286245.92 rows=504559 width=12) (actual time=0.280..11249.160 rows=404770 loops=3)
                                                                     Filter: ((deleted_at IS NULL) AND (post_type = ANY ('{1,2,3}'::integer[])))
                                                                     Rows Removed by Filter: 21884
                                                               ->  Hash  (cost=33938.80..33938.80 rows=92912 width=17) (actual time=1549.103..1549.103 rows=80351 loops=3)
                                                                     Buckets: 65536  Batches: 2  Memory Usage: 2557kB
                                                                     ->  Seq Scan on topics  (cost=0.00..33938.80 rows=92912 width=17) (actual time=0.010..1492.606 rows=80351 loops=3)
                                                                           Filter: ((deleted_at IS NULL) AND visible AND ((archetype)::text <> 'private_message'::text))
                                                                           Rows Removed by Filter: 216751
                                                         ->  Index Scan using posts_search_pkey on post_search_data  (cost=0.43..0.96 rows=1 width=383) (actual time=0.017..0.017 rows=0 loops=855836)
                                                               Index Cond: (post_id = posts_1.id)
                                                               Filter: (search_data @@ '''price'':*ABD'::tsquery)
                                                               Rows Removed by Filter: 1
                                             ->  Hash  (cost=9.43..9.43 rows=43 width=9) (actual time=0.059..0.059 rows=43 loops=1)
                                                   Buckets: 1024  Batches: 1  Memory Usage: 10kB
                                                   ->  Seq Scan on categories  (cost=0.00..9.43 rows=43 width=9) (actual time=0.007..0.045 rows=43 loops=1)
                                             SubPlan 1
                                               ->  Result  (cost=0.00..0.01 rows=1 width=4) (actual time=0.000..0.000 rows=0 loops=191436)
                                                     One-Time Filter: (categories.search_priority = 1)
         ->  Index Scan using index_posts_on_topic_id_and_post_number on posts  (cost=0.43..8.45 rows=1 width=1169) (actual time=1.435..1.435 rows=1 loops=6)
               Index Cond: ((topic_id = topics.id) AND (post_number = (min(posts_1.post_number))))
               Filter: (deleted_at IS NULL)
 Planning time: 3.508 ms
 Execution time: 20541.411 ms
(46 filas)`