Re: Bad performance of SELECT ... where id IN (...)

Hi Xia,

Try this patch:

http://treehou.se/~omar/postgresql-8.4.1-array_sel_hack.patch

It's a hack, but it works for us. I think you're probably spending
most of your query time planning, and this patch helps speed things up
10x over here.

Regards,
Omar

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Xia Qingran <qingran(dot)xia(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Craig James
> <craig_james(at)emolecules(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> If your user_id is always in a narrow range like this, or even in any range
>> that is a small fraction of the total, then add a range condition, like
>> this:
>>
>> select * from event where user_id <= 500 and user_id >= 0 and user_id in
>> (...)
>>
>> I did this exact same thing in my application and it worked well.
>>
>> Craig
>>
>
> It is a good idea. But In my application, most of the queries' user_id
> are random and difficult to range.
> Thanks anyway.
>
>
>
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