array can be slow when joining?

From: Volodymyr Kostyrko <c(dot)kworr(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: array can be slow when joining?
Date: 2010-08-29 13:18:22
Message-ID: 4C7A5E1E.6050205@gmail.com
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I don't clearly understand why this happens, but when I try join some
tables using arrays I end up with:

=# explain select count(*) from urls JOIN rules ON urls.tag && rules.tag;
QUERY PLAN

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aggregate (cost=1356.27..1356.28 rows=1 width=0)
-> Nested Loop (cost=20.33..1354.96 rows=523 width=0)
-> Seq Scan on rules (cost=0.00..1.01 rows=1 width=37)
-> Bitmap Heap Scan on urls (cost=20.33..1347.42 rows=523
width=29)
Recheck Cond: (urls.tag && rules.tag)
-> Bitmap Index Scan on url_tag_g (cost=0.00..20.20
rows=523 width=0)
Index Cond: (urls.tag && rules.tag)

Here tag is text[] with list of tags. Whole select takes 142 ms. It
drops down to 42 ms when I add some conditions that strip result table
to zero length.

What am I missing? Is there any other ways to overlap those ones? Or
should I find "any other way"?

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