Re: Query works when kludged, but would prefer "best practice" solution

Well, there goes my dream of getting a recommendation that will deliver a
blinding insight into how to speed up all of my queries a thousand-fold.

Thanks Merlin!

-----Original Message-----
From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com]
Sent: September 17, 2007 8:03 PM
To: Carlo Stonebanks
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Query works when kludged, but would prefer "best
practice" solution

On 9/17/07, Carlo Stonebanks <stonec(dot)register(at)sympatico(dot)ca> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please see the section marked as "PROBLEM" in "ORIGINAL QUERY" plan below.
> You can see it's pretty slow. Oddly enough, an index for
facility_address_id
> is available but not being used, but I suspect it's questionable whether
it
> would be an improvement.

This looks like it might be the problem tom caught and rigged a solution to:
http://people.planetpostgresql.org/dfetter/index.php?/archives/134-PostgreSQ
L-Weekly-News-September-03-2007.html
(look fro band-aid).

If that's the case, the solution is to wait for 8.2.5 (coming soon).

merlin