Re: Is a better way to have the same result of this

Ron,

The gender is indexed. Each user has account and preference, but not necessary block.

I am currently seeking for query optimisation, not system configuration optimisation

12/4/2002 9:26:48 PM, Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> wrote:

>On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 18:26, Vernon Wu wrote:
>> I have the following query:
>>
>> SELECT p.userid, p.year, a.country, a.province, a.city
>> FROM profile p, account a
>> WHERE p.userid=a.userid AND
>> (p.year BETWEEN 1961 AND 1976) AND
>> a.country='CA' AND
>> a.province='BC' AND
>> p.gender='f' AND
>> p.userid NOT IN (SELECT b.userid FROM block b WHERE b.personid='Joe') AND
>> block.userid IS NOT NULL AND
>> p.userid IN
>> (SELECT f.userid FROM preference f, profile p1 WHERE p1.userid='Joe' AND 2002-p1.year BETWEEN
>> f.minage AND f.maxage)
>>
>> In plain English, it is that
>>
>> Joe finds females between the ages in the location who is not in the block table, while Joe's age is between what
they
>> prefer.
>>
>> The query plan is the followings:
>>
>> Nested Loop (cost=0.00..127.12 rows=995 width=894)
>> -> Nested Loop (cost=0.00..97.17 rows=1 width=894)
>> -> Seq Scan on account a (cost=0.00..25.00 rows=1 width=289)
>> -> Index Scan using pk_profile on profile p (cost=0.00..72.16 rows=1 width=605)
>> SubPlan
>> -> Materialize (cost=22.50..22.50 rows=5 width=55)
>> -> Seq Scan on block b (cost=0.00..22.50 rows=5 width=55
>> )
>> -> Materialize (cost=44.82..44.82 rows=111 width=89)
>> -> Nested Loop (cost=0.00..44.82 rows=111 width=89)
>> -> Index Scan using pk_profile on profile p1 (cost=0.00..4.82 rows=1 width=12)
>> -> Seq Scan on preference f (cost=0.00..20.00 rows=1000 width=77)
>> -> Seq Scan on block (cost=0.00..20.00 rows=995 width=0)
>>
>> It seems take quite long to run this query. How to optimise the query?
>>
>> Thanks for your input.
>>
>> Vernon
>
>What kind of indexes, if any, do you have on, and what is the
>cardinality of account, block and preference?
>
>What version of Postgres are you using?
>
>How much shared memory and buffers are you using?
>
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