Re: two seperate queries run faster than queries ORed together

From: Joseph Shraibman <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net>
To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: two seperate queries run faster than queries ORed together
Date: 2004-03-22 19:40:04
Message-ID: 405F4114.5070602@selectacast.net
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-performance

Stephan Szabo wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Joseph Shraibman wrote:
>
>
>>Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>>Joseph Shraibman <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>No, pkey is not the primary key in this case. The number of entries in u
>>>>that have pkey 260 and not boolfield is 344706.
>>>
>>>
>>>... and every one of those rows *must* be included in the join input,
>>
>>*If* you use one big join in the first place. If postgres ran the query
>>to first get the values with status == 3 from u, then ran the query to
>>get the entries from d, then combined them, the result would be the same
>>but the output faster. Instead it is doing seq scans on both tables and
>
>
> Well, you have to be careful on the combination to not give the wrong
> answers if there's a row with u.status=3 that matches a row d.status=3.

Right you would have to avoid duplicates. The existing DISTINCT code
should be able to handle that.

In response to

Browse pgsql-performance by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Tom Lane 2004-03-22 20:44:09 Re: two seperate queries run faster than queries ORed
Previous Message Stephan Szabo 2004-03-22 19:32:30 Re: two seperate queries run faster than queries ORed