Add membership column to current_state_events table.

It turns out that doing a join is surprisingly expensive for the DB to
do when room_membership table is larger than the disk cache.

synapse/storage/events.py

@@ -918,8 +918,6 @@ class EventsStore(
         min_stream_order = events_and_contexts[0][0].internal_metadata.stream_ordering
         max_stream_order = events_and_contexts[-1][0].internal_metadata.stream_ordering
 
-        self._update_current_state_txn(txn, state_delta_for_room, min_stream_order)
-
         self._update_forward_extremities_txn(
             txn,
             new_forward_extremities=new_forward_extremeties,
@@ -993,6 +991,10 @@ class EventsStore(
             backfilled=backfilled,
         )
 
+        # We call this last as it assumes we've inserted the events into
+        # room_memberships, where applicable.
+        self._update_current_state_txn(txn, state_delta_for_room, min_stream_order)
+
     def _update_current_state_txn(self, txn, state_delta_by_room, stream_id):
         for room_id, current_state_tuple in iteritems(state_delta_by_room):
             to_delete, to_insert = current_state_tuple
@@ -1062,16 +1064,16 @@ class EventsStore(
                 ),
             )
 
-            self._simple_insert_many_txn(
+            # We include the membership in the current state table, hence we do
-                txn,
+            # a lookup when we insert. This assumes that all events have already
-                table="current_state_events",
+            # been inserted into room_memberships.
-                values=[
+            txn.executemany(
-                    {
+                """INSERT INTO current_state_events
-                        "event_id": ev_id,
+                    (room_id, type, state_key, event_id, membership)
-                        "room_id": room_id,
+                VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, (SELECT membership FROM room_memberships WHERE event_id = ?))
-                        "type": key[0],
+                """,
-                        "state_key": key[1],
+                [
-                    }
+                    (room_id, key[0], key[1], ev_id, ev_id)
                     for key, ev_id in iteritems(to_insert)
                 ],
             )

synapse/storage/prepare_database.py

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 # Remember to update this number every time a change is made to database
 # schema files, so the users will be informed on server restarts.
-SCHEMA_VERSION = 55
+SCHEMA_VERSION = 56
 
 dir_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
 

synapse/storage/roommember.py

@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ class RoomMemberWorkerStore(EventsWorkerStore):
         results = []
         if membership_list:
             where_clause = "user_id = ? AND (%s) AND forgotten = 0" % (
-                " OR ".join(["membership = ?" for _ in membership_list]),
+                " OR ".join(["m.membership = ?" for _ in membership_list]),
             )
 
             args = [user_id]
@@ -453,8 +453,8 @@ class RoomMemberWorkerStore(EventsWorkerStore):
 
         sql = """
             SELECT state_key FROM current_state_events AS c
-            INNER JOIN room_memberships USING (event_id)
+            INNER JOIN room_memberships AS m USING (event_id)
-            WHERE membership = 'join'
+            WHERE m.membership = 'join'
                 AND type = 'm.room.member'
                 AND c.room_id = ?
                 AND state_key LIKE ?

synapse/storage/schema/delta/56/current_state_events_membership.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+/* Copyright 2019 The Matrix.org Foundation C.I.C.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+-- We add membership to current state so that we don't need to join against
+-- room_memberships, which can be surprisingly costly (we do such queries
+-- very frequently).
+ALTER TABLE current_state_events ADD membership TEXT;

synapse/storage/user_directory.py

@@ -618,15 +618,15 @@ class UserDirectoryStore(StateDeltasStore, BackgroundUpdateStore):
         sql = """
             SELECT room_id FROM (
                 SELECT c.room_id FROM current_state_events AS c
-                INNER JOIN room_memberships USING (event_id)
+                INNER JOIN room_memberships AS m USING (event_id)
                 WHERE type = 'm.room.member'
-                    AND membership = 'join'
+                    AND m.membership = 'join'
                     AND state_key = ?
             ) AS f1 INNER JOIN (
                 SELECT c.room_id FROM current_state_events AS c
-                INNER JOIN room_memberships USING (event_id)
+                INNER JOIN room_memberships AS m USING (event_id)
                 WHERE type = 'm.room.member'
-                    AND membership = 'join'
+                    AND m.membership = 'join'
                     AND state_key = ?
             ) f2 USING (room_id)
         """