Re: Very ineffective plan with merge join

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
Cc: Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Very ineffective plan with merge join
Date: 2010-04-15 21:24:46
Message-ID: 24590.1271366686@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> writes:
> below is an example of interesting query and two plans - the bad plan, which
> uses merge join and big sorting, took 216 sec, and good plan with merge join disabled took
> 8 sec.

The "good" plan seems to be fast mainly because of heavily cached inner
indexscans. If that's the normal operating state for this database, you
should try reducing random_page_cost.

Also, as Pavel noted, the sub-join size estimates aren't very good, and
those overestimates are discouraging it from using inner-indexscan
nestloops. I'm not sure how much it would help to increase the
statistics targets, but that would be worth trying.

regards, tom lane

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