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events_statements_summary_by_digest.DIGEST_TEXT includes parse_gcol_expr for slow INSERTs
Posted by: Lee Marshall
Date: October 09, 2020 05:17PM

I periodically monitor how my application is using the database with a query on events_statements_summary_by_digest taking the top 20 SUM_TIMER_WAIT.

Lately, I'm seeing two distinct entries for inserts into my most active, largest table, both in the top 5 operations. The slow queries have some extra text in DIGEST_TEXT that I'm not familiar with.

slow:
average wait: 71 sec!
INSERT INTO EVENTS ( `deviceID` , DESCRIPTION , VALUE , `tstamp` , `controllerID` , `SR2time` , `value_retrieved` , `junk` ) VALUES (...) (unknown) `parse_gcol_expr` (?)

fast:
average wait: 8 msec
runs 1000x more often. Thank goodness it's not the other way around!
INSERT INTO EVENTS ( `deviceID` , DESCRIPTION , VALUE , `tstamp` , `controllerID` , `SR2time` , `value_retrieved` , `junk` ) VALUES (...)

The actual insert statements look identical modulo the actual values supplied. After I remove sensitive information, they are identical!

insert into events (deviceID, description, value, tstamp, controllerID, SR2time, value_retrieved, junk) values (sensitive-int, 'sensitive', 'sensitive', 'sensitive-date', sensitive-int, 'sensitive-date', '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 0);


I've got no generated columns. I do have these interesting columns:
`last_update` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
`junk` tinyint(1) DEFAULT '0',
`source` tinyint NOT NULL DEFAULT (0),

MySQL Workbench shows (but won't let me copy/paste!) `source` as "DEFAULT_GENERATED" but not `junk`. So I suppose we've accidentally given it an expression rather than a value. It's a new column, perhaps newer than this problem.
last_update also shows up as "DEFAULT_GENERATED".

Questions:
1) What's this business about "(unknown) `parse_gcol_expr` (?)"?
--I've done some searches for "parse_gcol_expr" and come up with slim pickings in the direction of generated columns
2) What tree should I be barking up?

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