57014 statement timeout: Postgres view's window PARTITION BY blocks pushdown of WHERE job_id = X, every write slow

Fix

Make the filter column part of the partition key (it is functionally implied anyway), and carry it through any intermediate views:

create or replace view job_stage_rollup as
select ..., row_number() over (partition by job_id, part_id order by seq) as rn
from part_stages ...;   -- was: partition by part_id

Now WHERE job_id = X is pushed below the WindowAgg and uses the index. Optional: alter role authenticator set work_mem = '16MB';

Symptom

In a Supabase-backed app, creating orders or tapping production stages "didn't respond". Users clicked repeatedly and duplicates appeared later. Logs showed 57014 canceling statement due to statement timeout. The authenticator role had statement_timeout=8s, and client retries made it worse. Mean INSERT latency was 684 ms, with a maximum of 8 s.

Cause

A statement trigger on the hot tables refreshed a summary row by reading a rollup view with WHERE job_id = $1. The view computed ... OVER (PARTITION BY part_id ORDER BY ...). Postgres cannot push a predicate on a column that is not in the PARTITION BY below the window function, because filtering first could change window results. So every write sorted all ~100k rows (spilling to disk with work_mem 2 MB) and then discarded 99% of them. EXPLAIN ANALYZE showed a full Sort/WindowAgg on the whole table.

Verify

Equivalence: the old and new view definitions were compared inside a rolled-back transaction with EXCEPT ALL in both directions over all rows, giving 0 differences.
Speed on the largest job: rollup 597 to 15 ms, trigger function 751 to 25-45 ms, real PATCH from the app server 1.3 s to 140-320 ms.

Notes

Do DDL on production with begin; set local lock_timeout='3s'; .... Look for other views using the same pattern. Here a second view had the identical problem (0.45-2 s).

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57014 statement timeout: Postgres view's window PARTITION BY blocks pushdown of WHERE job_id = X, every write slow

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