Re: 8.2.4 Chooses Bad Query Plan

Hi Tom,

Thanks! for the reply, see my comments below

Tom Lane wrote:
> Pallav Kalva <pkalva(at)livedatagroup(dot)com> writes:
>
>> We have recently upgraded our production database from 8.0.12 to
>> 8.2.4, We have seen lot of improvements on 8.2.4 side but we are also
>> seeing some queries which are slow.
>>
>
>
>> Particularly this below query is really bad in 8.2.4 , I can get
>> only the explain on this as explain analyze never finishes even after 20
>> min.
>>
>
> What it's doing is scanning backward on activity1_.activityid and hoping
> to find a row that matches all the other constraints soon enough to make
> that faster than any other way of doing the query. 8.0 would have done
> the same thing, I believe, if the statistics looked favorable for it.
> So I wonder if you've forgotten to re-ANALYZE your data since migrating
> (a pg_dump script won't do this for you).
>
>

So, if I understand this correctly it keeps doing index scan backwards
until it finds
a matching record , if it cant find any record it pretty much scans the
whole table
using "index scan backward" ?

If I have no matching record I pretty much wait until the query
finishes ?

Is there anything else I can do to improve the query ?

I have analyzed tables again and also my default_stats_target is set to
100,
still it shows the same plan.

>> -> Index Scan using idx_accountactivity_fkactivityid on
>> accountactivity accountact0_ (cost=0.00..3.94 rows=1 width=16)
>> Index Cond: (accountact0_.fkactivityid =
>> activity1_.activityid)
>> Filter: (fkaccountid = 1455437)
>>
>
>
>> -> Index Scan using
>> idx_accountactivity_fkaccountid on accountactivity accountact0_
>> (cost=0.00..1641.42 rows=1343 width=16) (actual time=115.348..864.416
>> rows=10302 loops=1)
>> Index Cond: (fkaccountid = 1455437)
>>
>
> The discrepancy in rowcount estimates here is pretty damning.
> Even the 8.0 estimate wasn't really very good --- you might want to
> consider increasing default_statistics_target.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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