Re: seq scan over 3.3 million rows instead of single key index access

From: Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: seq scan over 3.3 million rows instead of single key index access
Date: 2008-11-23 08:13:39
Message-ID: 20081123081339.GB7443@tux
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Andrus <kobruleht2(at)hot(dot)ee> schrieb:

> There are indexes on rid(dokumnr) and dok(dokumnr) and dokumnr is int.
> Instead of using single key index, 8.1.4 scans over whole rid table.
> Sometimes idtelluued can contain more than single row so replacing join
> with equality is not possible.
>
> How to fix ?
>
> Andrus.
>
> CREATE TEMP TABLE idtellUued(dokumnr INT) ON COMMIT DROP;
> INSERT INTO idtellUued VALUES(1249228);
> explain analyze select 1
> from dok JOIN rid USING(dokumnr)
> JOIN idtellUued USING(dokumnr)

Try to analyse the idtellUued-table after the insert. The planner has no
knowledge that this table contains only one or e few rows, the planner
assume 1000 (iirc) in this table.

Andreas
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