Re: Terribly slow query with very good plan?

On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 at 10:09, Les <nagylzs(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> Oh I see, the query planner does not know that there will be no % characters in file and folder names.
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> But what is the solution then? It just seems wrong that I can speed up a query 1000 times by replacing it with a nested loop in a pl/sql function :(

You don't need a nested loop, doing it in two stages in pl/pgsql would
be enough I think, first get the folder name and then construct a new
query using it as a constant.

I'd use SELECT FOR SHARE when getting the folder name, so that no
other process can change it underneath you before you run your second
query.

With the ^@ operator, my guess is that because the planner knows
nothing about the folder name value it could be the empty string,
which would be a prefix of everything.