Minor perf fixes to get_auth_chain_ids.

changelog.d/6954.misc

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Minor perf fixes to `get_auth_chain_ids`.

synapse/storage/data_stores/main/event_federation.py

@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ import itertools
 import logging
 from typing import List, Optional, Set
 
-from six.moves import range
 from six.moves.queue import Empty, PriorityQueue
 
 from twisted.internet import defer
@@ -28,6 +27,7 @@ from synapse.storage.data_stores.main.events_worker import EventsWorkerStore
 from synapse.storage.data_stores.main.signatures import SignatureWorkerStore
 from synapse.storage.database import Database
 from synapse.util.caches.descriptors import cached
+from synapse.util.iterutils import batch_iter
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -88,14 +88,12 @@ class EventFederationWorkerStore(EventsWorkerStore, SignatureWorkerStore, SQLBas
         front = set(event_ids)
         while front:
             new_front = set()
-            front_list = list(front)
-            chunks = [front_list[x : x + 100] for x in range(0, len(front), 100)]
-            for chunk in chunks:
+            for chunk in batch_iter(front, 100):
                 clause, args = make_in_list_sql_clause(
                     txn.database_engine, "event_id", chunk
                 )
-                txn.execute(base_sql + clause, list(args))
-                new_front.update([r[0] for r in txn])
+                txn.execute(base_sql + clause, args)
+                new_front.update(r[0] for r in txn)
 
             new_front -= ignore_events
             new_front -= results

synapse/storage/database.py

@@ -1504,7 +1504,7 @@ class Database(object):
 
 def make_in_list_sql_clause(
     database_engine, column: str, iterable: Iterable
-) -> Tuple[str, Iterable]:
+) -> Tuple[str, list]:
     """Returns an SQL clause that checks the given column is in the iterable.
 
     On SQLite this expands to `column IN (?, ?, ...)`, whereas on Postgres