Re: BUG #3824: Query hangs when result set empty using sort and limit

"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

> "Gregor Roessle" <g(dot)roessle(at)osram(dot)de> writes:
>> The Server hangs when executing a query like this:
>
>> select * from messwerte where pknr = 28315178 and isproducing = 't' order by
>> timestamp desc limit 1;
>
> I seriously doubt that it's hung. Takes a long time, maybe so. Is it
> trying to use an indexscan on timestamp to substitute for a sort step?

Surely it wouldn't make 32ms become long enough to qualify as "hung".

Unless perhaps it's otherwise using an index on pknr and/or isproducing and
with the "ORDER BY timestamp desc LIMIT 1" it's using a different large index.

I think we have to see

EXPLAIN ANALYZE select * from messwerte where pknr = 28315178 and isproducing = 't' order by timestamp;
EXPLAIN ANALYZE select * from messwerte where pknr = 28315178 and isproducing = 't' limit 1;
EXPLAIN select * from messwerte where pknr = 28315178 and isproducing = 't' order by timestamp limit 1;

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