Re: small table left outer join big table

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 07:17 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>> >
>> > Here I have a puzzle, why not choose the small table to build hash table? It
>> > can avoid multiple batches thus save significant I/O cost, isn't it?
>>
>> Yeah, you'd think.  Can you post a full reproducible test case?
>
> It's not a bug, that's the way it currently works. We don't need a test
> case for that.
>
> I agree that the optimisation would be a useful one.
>
> It allows you to ask the query "Show me sales for each of my stores"
> efficiently, rather than being forced to request the inner join query
> "Show me the sales for each of my stores for which there have been
> sales", which is a much less useful query.

Oh, you're right. I missed the fact that it's a left join.

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