Here is some usage statistics about how auth directives are slowing down our quries sometimes by a factor of 4,500% Yikes! I have a query I run for an admin vs. a standard user. For admin it takes 197 ms which is really great! I have been super happy until I ran it as a user and the same query took…

I think the optmization PR might fix your issue since you have nested query. Can you try the query on latest 20.07 or master branch?

Auth directives cripling database speed

amaster507 (Anthony Master) July 14, 2020, 5:30pm 5

I am actually running docker image dgraph/dgraph:master which currently is shown in ratel as v2.0.0-rc1-448-gd5892dc0c

Response today running this again:

as Admin: 81.24ms
as User: 9.32s (SECONDS)

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