Re: slowness when subselect uses DISTINCT

May I suggest you post an EXPLAIN ANALYZE to the group for the query you're
having problems with...?

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From: pgsql-sql-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-sql-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]
On Behalf Of Stuart McGraw
Sent: Thursday, 19 April 2007 04:17
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [SQL] slowness when subselect uses DISTINCT

I have several times now run into what seems
like similar performance problems with some
of my postgresql queries.

I have a view that runs reasonably quicky.

I use this view in a subselect in another
query and that query too runs reasonably
quicky.

The view returns some unwanted duplicate
rows so I modify it using either DISTINCT
or GROUP BY to eliminate them.
View still runs reasonably quickly.

I use the modified view as a subselect as
above, but now the query runs 2-3 orders
of magnitude more slowly than before.

Before I go through the effort of putting
together a specific and concise test case,
has anyone seen this general pattern and
have an explanation or advice? (PG-8.2.3)

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