Re: Slow Foreign Key

From: Ricardo Vaz Mannrich <rvm_l1(at)silcom(dot)com(dot)br>
To: Sam Barnett-Cormack <s(dot)barnett-cormack(at)lancaster(dot)ac(dot)uk>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Slow Foreign Key
Date: 2004-03-23 11:32:30
Message-ID: 1080041550.2210.1.camel@paranagua.silcom
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Both indexed...

But... When I try EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM detail WHERE master_id = XXXXXX;
PostgreSQL uses seq scan (why?)

It's very confusing.

Em Seg, 2004-03-22 às 18:34, Sam Barnett-Cormack escreveu:
> On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Ricardo Vaz Mannrich <rvm_l1(at)silcom(dot)com(dot)br> writes:
> > > Is FOREIGN KEY so slow like that?
> >
> > Not normally. Have you checked that the referencing and referenced
> > columns are of the same datatype? Have you done ANALYZE on both tables
> > recently?
>
> Other question that seems, from my experience, to be relevant - are the
> referenced/referencing columns indexed?
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Ricardo Vaz Mannrich <rvm_l1(at)silcom(dot)com(dot)br>

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