Re: Slow plan for MAX/MIN or LIMIT 1?

From: Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Sam Wong <sam(at)hellosam(dot)net>, postgres performance list <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Slow plan for MAX/MIN or LIMIT 1?
Date: 2013-09-25 17:05:09
Message-ID: CAGTBQpa=5xrwb00gHmsxEzt6bTktPe5sguK+9yuQccGPUfBnCQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I was thinking an index over:
>>
>> (event, date_trunc('day', insert_time), log_id)
>>
>> And the query like
>>
>> SELECT min(log_id) FROM event_log
>> WHERE event='S-Create' AND
>> date_trunc('day',insert_time) = '2013-09-15'
>>
>>
>> That's a regular simple range scan over the index.
>
> *) date_trunc has same problems as ::date: it is stable expression
> only for timestamptz. also, the index will be bigger since you're
> still indexing timestamp

Ah, yes, good point.

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