Re: Performance issue

Willo van der Merwe <willo(at)mirasol(dot)co(dot)za> writes:
> I have something odd. I have Gallery2 running on PostgreSQL 8.1, and
> recently I upgraded to 8.1.9-1.el4s1.1 (64bit). The issue here really is
> how do I get PostgreSQL to work with their horrible code. The queries
> they generate look something like :
> SELECT blah, blah FROM table1, table2 WHERE <some relational stuff> AND
> id IN (<here a list of 42000+ IDs are listed>)

> On the previous version (which I can't recall what it was, but it was a
> version 8.1) the queries executed fine, but suddenly now, these queries
> are taking up-to 4 minutes to complete. I am convinced it's the
> parsing/handling of the IN clause.

You're wrong about that, because we have not done anything to change IN
planning in 8.1.x. You might need to re-ANALYZE or something; it sounds
to me more like the planner has changed strategies in the wrong direction.

FWIW, 8.2 should be vastly more efficient than 8.1 for this sort of
query --- any chance of an upgrade?

regards, tom lane