Re: Why Index is not used

Adarsh Sharma <adarsh(dot)sharma(at)orkash(dot)com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Today I got to run a query internally from my application by more than
> 10 connections.
>
> But The query performed very badly. A the data size of tables are as :
>
> pdc_uima=# select pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size('clause2'));
> pg_size_pretty
> ----------------
> 5858 MB
> (1 row)
>
> pdc_uima=# select pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size('svo2'));
> pg_size_pretty
> ----------------
> 4719 MB
> (1 row)
>
>
> I explain the query as after making the indexes as :
>
> pdc_uima=# explain select c.clause, s.* from clause2 c, svo2 s where
> c.clause_id=s.clause_id and s.doc_id=c.source_id and c.
> pdc_uima-# sentence_id=s.sentence_id ;
> QUERY PLAN
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Merge Join (cost=5673831.05..34033959.87 rows=167324179 width=2053)
> Merge Cond: ((s.clause_id = c.clause_id) AND (s.doc_id = c.source_id)
> AND (s.sentence_id = c.sentence_id))
> -> Index Scan using idx_svo2 on svo2 s (cost=0.00..24489343.65
> rows=27471560 width=1993)
> -> Materialize (cost=5673828.74..6071992.29 rows=31853084 width=72)
> -> Sort (cost=5673828.74..5753461.45 rows=31853084 width=72)
> Sort Key: c.clause_id, c.source_id, c.sentence_id
> -> Seq Scan on clause2 c (cost=0.00..770951.84
> rows=31853084 width=72)
>
>
>
> Indexes are :
>
> CREATE INDEX idx_clause ON clause2 USING btree (clause_id, source_id,
> sentence_id);
> CREATE INDEX idx_svo2 ON svo2 USING btree (clause_id, doc_id,
> sentence_id);
>
> I don't know why it not uses the index scan for clause2 table.

How many rows contains clause2? The planner expected 167324179 returning
rows, can you run the same explain with ANALYSE to see the real amount
of returning rows?

Andreas
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