• BitOneZero@beehaw.org
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    What a non-story.

    Lemmy project set wild unrealistic expectations on GItHub project: 1) "high performance’, maybe the Rust code but PostgreSQL logic is the ORM madness. 2) “full erase” while sending all your public comments and posts to ActivePub without agreement on concept of delete.

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      unrealistic expectations on GItHub project: 1) "high performance

      For sure. That seems to be the go to phrase for anything developed in Rust. By itself, Rust isn’t any safer or faster than another similar language; it takes a good developer to make it work well.

      Just because it’s written in Rust doesn’t make your app safe, or performant. Just like because your app is written in C, doesn’t mean it’s buggy and insecure.

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        Just because it’s written in Rust doesn’t make your app safe, or performant.

        Lemmy 0.18.4 listing posts, frequently via ORM Diesel:

                    SELECT "post"."id", "post"."name", "post"."url", "post"."body", "post"."creator_id", "post"."community_id", "post"."removed",
                      "post"."locked", "post"."published", "post"."updated", "post"."deleted", "post"."nsfw", "post"."embed_title", "post"."embed_description",
                      "post"."thumbnail_url", "post"."ap_id", "post"."local", "post"."embed_video_url", "post"."language_id", "post"."featured_community",
                      "post"."featured_local",
                      "person"."id", "person"."name", "person"."display_name", "person"."avatar", "person"."banned", "person"."published", "person"."updated",
                      "person"."actor_id", "person"."bio", "person"."local", "person"."private_key", "person"."public_key", "person"."last_refreshed_at",
                      "person"."banner", "person"."deleted", "person"."inbox_url", "person"."shared_inbox_url", "person"."matrix_user_id",
                      "person"."admin",
                      "person"."bot_account", "person"."ban_expires", "person"."instance_id",
                      "community"."id", "community"."name", "community"."title", "community"."description", "community"."removed", "community"."published",
                      "community"."updated", "community"."deleted", "community"."nsfw", "community"."actor_id", "community"."local", "community"."private_key",
                      "community"."public_key", "community"."last_refreshed_at", "community"."icon", "community"."banner", "community"."followers_url",
                      "community"."inbox_url", "community"."shared_inbox_url", "community"."hidden", "community"."posting_restricted_to_mods",
                      "community"."instance_id", "community"."moderators_url", "community"."featured_url",
                      ("community_person_ban"."id" IS NOT NULL),
                      "post_aggregates"."id", "post_aggregates"."post_id", "post_aggregates"."comments", "post_aggregates"."score", "post_aggregates"."upvotes",
                      "post_aggregates"."downvotes", "post_aggregates"."published", "post_aggregates"."newest_comment_time_necro",
                      "post_aggregates"."newest_comment_time", "post_aggregates"."featured_community", "post_aggregates"."featured_local",
                      "post_aggregates"."hot_rank", "post_aggregates"."hot_rank_active", "post_aggregates"."community_id", "post_aggregates"."creator_id",
                      "post_aggregates"."controversy_rank", "community_follower"."pending",
                      ("post_saved"."id" IS NOT NULL),
                      ("post_read"."id" IS NOT NULL),
                      ("person_block"."id" IS NOT NULL),
                      "post_like"."score",
                      coalesce(("post_aggregates"."comments" - "person_post_aggregates"."read_comments"),
                      "post_aggregates"."comments")
                     
                      FROM ((((((((((((
                        ("post_aggregates"
                           INNER JOIN "person" ON ("post_aggregates"."creator_id" = "person"."id"))
                        INNER JOIN "community" ON ("post_aggregates"."community_id" = "community"."id"))
                        LEFT OUTER JOIN "community_person_ban" ON (("post_aggregates"."community_id" = "community_person_ban"."community_id") AND ("community_person_ban"."person_id" = "post_aggregates"."creator_id"))
                        )
                        INNER JOIN "post" ON ("post_aggregates"."post_id" = "post"."id")
                        )
                        LEFT OUTER JOIN "community_follower" ON (("post_aggregates"."community_id" = "community_follower"."community_id") AND ("community_follower"."person_id" = $1))
                        )
                        LEFT OUTER JOIN "community_moderator" ON (("post"."community_id" = "community_moderator"."community_id") AND ("community_moderator"."person_id" = $1))
                        )
                        LEFT OUTER JOIN "post_saved" ON (("post_aggregates"."post_id" = "post_saved"."post_id") AND ("post_saved"."person_id" = $1))
                        )
                        LEFT OUTER JOIN "post_read" ON (("post_aggregates"."post_id" = "post_read"."post_id") AND ("post_read"."person_id" = $1))
                        )
                        LEFT OUTER JOIN "person_block" ON (("post_aggregates"."creator_id" = "person_block"."target_id") AND ("person_block"."person_id" = $1))
                        )
                        LEFT OUTER JOIN "post_like" ON (("post_aggregates"."post_id" = "post_like"."post_id") AND ("post_like"."person_id" = $1))
                        )
                        LEFT OUTER JOIN "person_post_aggregates" ON (("post_aggregates"."post_id" = "person_post_aggregates"."post_id") AND ("person_post_aggregates"."person_id" = $1))
                        )
                        LEFT OUTER JOIN "community_block" ON (("post_aggregates"."community_id" = "community_block"."community_id") AND ("community_block"."person_id" = $1))
                        )
                        LEFT OUTER JOIN "local_user_language" ON (("post"."language_id" = "local_user_language"."language_id") AND ("local_user_language"."local_user_id" = $2))
                        )
                        
                        WHERE
                        (((
                            (((
                            (
                            ("community"."removed" = $3) AND ("post"."removed" = $4))
                            AND ("community_follower"."pending" IS NOT NULL)
                            )
                            AND ("post"."nsfw" = $5)
                            )
                            AND ("community"."nsfw" = $6)
                            )
                            AND ("local_user_language"."language_id" IS NOT NULL)
                            )
                            AND ("community_block"."person_id" IS NULL)
                            )
                            AND ("person_block"."person_id" IS NULL)
                            )
                            
                        ORDER BY "post_aggregates"."featured_local" DESC , "post_aggregates"."hot_rank_active" DESC , "post_aggregates"."published" DESC
                            
                        LIMIT $7
                        OFFSET $8
        			;`
        
        

        That is with hand-optimized person_id = $1, which the Rust code does not do.

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          1 year ago

          See, I noticed this stuff reading through the Lemmy source code, but I assumed the authors just were on another level of database use than me. Is this actually just a mess? How exactly is it bad, beyond being opaque?

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          This doesn’t look like anything out of the ordinary in a real-world application to me. We have way more complex queries in our service, even though ours are hand crafted.

          One thing we did notice though is that sometimes, it’s faster to just query the whole dataset and do the complex filtering in Rust. As soon as you hit the seq scan heuristic in PostgreSQL, there’s nothing to be gained from doing it in SQL.

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            1 year ago

            We have way more complex queries

            It isn’t the complexity that is the problem. It is the open-ended nature. It lacks any WHERE clause that specifies which posts to get. It just kicks off join after join without restricting what it is looking for. It relies on the “LIMIT 50” that Lemmy restricts post listings too. Which worked OK in March 2023 when Lemmy was over 4 years old and still had very tiny amounts of data in all these tables that it joins, but once even a modest amount of data got point in the open-ended nature of the WHERE clause kept making it slower and slower as more and more content.