Re: [HACKERS] slow information schema with thausand users, seq.scan

I have remove the LEFT part of the join to pg_roles in
psql/description.c. I assume this is too risky for 8.1.X.

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew - Supernews <andrew+nonews(at)supernews(dot)com> writes:
> > On 2006-02-06, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> >> It already has indexes.
>
> > True, but they're not being used where you'd expect. This seems to be
> > something to do with the fact that it's not pg_authid which is being
> > accessed, but rather the view pg_roles.
>
> I looked into this and it seems the problem is that the view doesn't
> get flattened into the main query because of the has_nullable_targetlist
> limitation in prepjointree.c. That's triggered because pg_roles has
> '********'::text AS rolpassword
> which isn't nullable, meaning it would produce wrong behavior if
> referenced above the outer join.
>
> Ultimately, the reason this is a problem is that the planner deals only
> in simple Vars while processing joins; it doesn't want to think about
> expressions. I'm starting to think that it may be time to fix this,
> because I've run into several related restrictions lately, but it seems
> like a nontrivial project.
>
> In the meantime, reducing the LEFT JOIN to pg_roles to a JOIN as per
> Peter's suggestion seems like the best short-term workaround.
>
> regards, tom lane
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