Re: Slow update with simple query

From: Arnaud Lesauvage <thewild(at)freesurf(dot)fr>
To: Jens Schipkowski <jens(dot)schipkowski(at)apus(dot)co(dot)at>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Slow update with simple query
Date: 2006-12-13 12:23:41
Message-ID: 457FF0CD.4050606@freesurf.fr
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Jens Schipkowski a écrit :
> the problem is a combination of bad formed SQL and maybe missing indexes.
> try this:
> UPDATE t1
> SET booleanfield = foo.bar
> FROM (SELECT uid,(field IN ('some','other') AND field2 = 'Y') AS bar FROM
> t2) AS foo
> WHERE t1.uid=foo.uid;

Hi Jens,
Why is this query better than the other one ? Because it runs the
"(field IN ('some','other') AND field2 = 'Y')" once and then executes
the join with the resulting set ?

> and index t1.uid, t2.uid, t2.field, t2.field2

t1.field can only take 3 or 4 values (don't remember exactly), and
field2 only 2 ('Y' or 'N'). So this fields have a very low cardinality.
Won't the planner chose to do a table scan in such a case ?

Thanks for your advices !

--
Arnaud

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