Re: PostgreSQL 15-->18 slowdown?

On 6/26/26 11:14 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
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> On 6/26/26 10:58 AM, Israel Brewster wrote:
>> In postgreSQL 15, I had the below query that worked quickly. Now, I
>> make no claims that the query is the best possible, or even a good
>> query, but it DID work, and it did so quickly enough to be un-
>> noticable when running.
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>> Then I upgrade to PostgreSQL 18 - and now the query never completes
>> (as in, I get a command timeout after at least half an hour before I
>> get a result). Looking at the EXPLAIN (https://explain.depesz.com/s/
>> llAQ <https://explain.depesz.com/s/llAQ>) makes it pretty obvious why:
>> we have a sequence scan on a large table inside a nested loop - and
>> that sequence scan is apparently not short circuiting.
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> The link provided shows no times or rows, did you pick the correct one?

Yes you did: "I get a command timeout after at least half an hour"

Was not thinking.
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>> I tried the obvious: REINDEX database and VACUUM ANALYZE, but neither
>> helped. I have my default_statistics_target set to 500 at the moment.
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>> Then I tried SET enable_seqscan = off; Lo and behold, the query ran in
>> only 123.888 ms (fun number :-D ) - https://explain.depesz.com/s/K2K9
>> <https://explain.depesz.com/s/K2K9>
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> This one does not show the actual query.
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