Re: merge join killing performance

From: Matthew Wakeling <matthew(at)flymine(dot)org>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: merge join killing performance
Date: 2010-05-19 03:00:18
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.00.1005182254110.1867@aragorn.flymine.org
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On Tue, 18 May 2010, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> Aggregate (cost=902.41..902.42 rows=1 width=4)
> -> Merge Join (cost=869.97..902.40 rows=1 width=4)
> Merge Cond: (f.eid = ev.eid)
> -> Index Scan using files_eid_idx on files f
> (cost=0.00..157830.39 rows=3769434 width=8)

Okay, that's weird. How is the cost of the merge join only 902, when the
cost of one of the branches 157830, when there is no LIMIT?

Are the statistics up to date?

Matthew

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