Re: Very slow 101-feeling design/query..

On 12/10/21 4:53 PM, Wells Oliver wrote:
> This feels very 101 but I feel like it should be much faster:
>
> A table "joints" with a PK of play_uuid, target_id, joint_seq,
> joint_timestamp.
>
> "joints" is partitioned using RANGE on joint_timestamp for monthly
> partitions 1/1 - 2/1, 2-1 - 3/1, etc.
>
> "joints" has an FK where play_uuid refers to table "plays" and
> column "play_uuid" where "play_uuid" is the PK.
>
> "plays" additionally has an indexed column game_id.
>
> "joints" has 1133,932,391 rows across 12 monthly partitions for 2021, and
> "plays has 585,627 rows. We made a view called "vw_joints" which just does:
>
> SELECT * FROM joints JOIN plays USING (play_id);
>
> Then doing:
>
> SELECT DISTINCT game_id FROM vw_joints
>
> Takes 35-45 minutes. Which seems nuts. We do this kind of design in a few
> different plays to normalize things, but it comes at the cost of these
> agonizingly slow (and seemingly dead simple) qeuries.
>
> Is there any optimization to do here beyond flattening table and
> de-normalizing data? Is the partitioning causing a slowness here? I feel
> like partitioning is creating some difficulty...

What Postgresql version?

What does the query plan look like?

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