Re: Materializing a sequential scan

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:37:25AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> That mdb_gruppekobling_transitiv_tillukning function looks awfully
> grotty ... how many rows does it return, and how long does it take to
> run by itself? How often does its temp table get vacuumed? A quick
> band-aid might be to use TRUNCATE instead of DELETE FROM to clean the
> table ... but if I were you I'd try to rewrite the function entirely.

I've verified that it indeed does use 20ms more for every run without a
VACUUM, but it shouldn't really matter -- and I guess it will go away once
somebody teaches plpgsql about not caching OIDs for CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE.
:-)

In any case, I still can't understand why it picks the plan it does; what's
up with the materialized seqscan, and where do the four million rows come
from? 7.4 estimates ~52000 disk page fetches for the same query, so surely
there must be a better plan than four million :-)

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