From: | Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
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To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
Cc: | Ludwig Lim <lud_nowhere_man(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Rules and Triggers |
Date: | 2002-05-17 18:19:31 |
Message-ID: | 200205171819.g4HIJVa07333@saturn.janwieck.net |
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Ludwig,
>
> > I tried converting the rule to function & trigger
> > and it reported that it used an Index scan given the
> > same INSERT statement.
> >
> > I was wondering why the rule used sequentail scan
> > and the equivalent function trigger used index scan.
>
> This is one of the documented differences between rules and triggers
> (at least, I've seen it in the documentation *somewhere*). I can't
> tell you "why", though ... hopefully Tom or Bruce will speak to that.
Neither is *that* one of the differences between rules and
triggers, nor *should* something like that be documented
instead of fixed.
There might be a difference in the selectivity when using
OLD/NEW Var nodes vs. $n parameters, and therefore a
different estimate by the optimizer. But in general rule
generated queries are using indexes.
Of course, that requires up to date statistics. Are the
tables ANALYZE'd properly?
> For myself, I use triggers for most things, and rules just for
> updatable views. Aside for index efficiency, rules are a Postgres-only
> thing, whereas several RDBMS's support triggers. Gives me marginally
> better portability.
As long as your queries only affect very few rows, you'll not
notice much of a performance difference. Try updating a
couple thousand rows with one UPDATE. A trigger will fire a
couple thousand times, where a rule does all the work in one
additional query.
Jan
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