Re: Problems with ordering (can't force query planner to use an index)

Set statistics to 1000, reanalyzed and got exactly same results:

noovo-new=# explain analyze SELECT "core_accessor"."id",
"core_accessor"."content_type_id",
"core_accessor"."object_id", "core_accessor"."ordering",
"core_accessor"."label", "core_accessor"."date_posted",
"core_accessor"."publish_state", "core_accessor"."nooximity_old",
"core_accessor"."rising", "core_accessor"."nooximity",
"core_accessor"."nooximity_old_date_posted",
"core_accessor"."nooximity_date_posted", "core_accessor"."user_id",
"core_accessor"."slot_id", "core_accessor"."slot_type_id",
"core_accessor"."role", "core_base"."object_id",
"core_base"."content_type_id", "core_base"."abstract",
"core_base"."abstract_title", "core_base"."image",
"core_base"."date_posted", "core_base"."date_modified",
"core_base"."date_expires", "core_base"."publish_state",
"core_base"."location", "core_base"."location_x",
"core_base"."location_y", "core_base"."raw", "core_base"."author_id",
"core_base"."excerpt", "core_base"."state_id",
"core_base"."country_id", "core_base"."language",
"core_base"."_identifier",
"core_base"."slot_url", "core_base"."source_id",
"core_base"."source_content_type_id", "core_base"."source_type",
"core_base"."source_value", "core_base"."source_title",
"core_base"."direct_to_source", "core_base"."comment_count",
"core_base"."public" FROM "core_accessor" INNER JOIN core_base AS
core_base ON core_base.content_type_id =
core_accessor.content_type_id AND core_base.object_id =
core_accessor.object_id WHERE (("core_accessor"."slot_type_id" = 119
AND "core_accessor"."slot_id" = 472 AND "core_accessor"."label" = E''
AND "core_accessor"."publish_state" >= 60 AND
"core_accessor"."role" IN (0) AND "core_accessor"."user_id" = 0))
order by core_accessor.date_posted, core_accessor.nooximity LIMIT 5
;

QUERY PLAN
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Limit (cost=31716.13..31716.14 rows=5 width=860) (actual
time=711.340..711.343 rows=5 loops=1)
-> Sort (cost=31716.13..31722.19 rows=2424 width=860) (actual
time=711.339..711.339 rows=5 loops=1)
Sort Key: core_accessor.date_posted, core_accessor.nooximity
Sort Method: top-N heapsort Memory: 31kB
-> Nested Loop (cost=0.00..31675.87 rows=2424 width=860)
(actual time=0.076..544.039 rows=68505 loops=1)
-> Index Scan using core_accessor_fresh_idx on
core_accessor (cost=0.00..9234.77 rows=2511 width=92) (actual
time=0.058..55.225 rows=69312 loops=1)
Index Cond: ((slot_id = 472) AND (slot_type_id =
119) AND (label = ''::text) AND (user_id = 0) AND (role = 0) AND
(publish_state >= 60))
-> Index Scan using core_base_pkey on core_base
(cost=0.00..8.92 rows=1 width=768) (actual time=0.005..0.005 rows=1
loops=69312)
Index Cond: ((core_base.object_id =
core_accessor.object_id) AND (core_base.content_type_id =
core_accessor.content_type_id))
Total runtime: 711.443 ms
(10 rows)

This is how I did it:

noovo-new=# alter table core_accessor alter column slot_id set statistics 1000;
ALTER TABLE
noovo-new=# alter table core_accessor alter column slot_type_id set
statistics 1000;
ALTER TABLE
noovo-new=# alter table core_accessor alter column label set statistics 1000;
ALTER TABLE
noovo-new=# alter table core_accessor alter column user_id set statistics 1000;
ALTER TABLE
noovo-new=# alter table core_accessor alter column role set statistics 1000;
ALTER TABLE
noovo-new=# alter table core_accessor alter column publish_state set
statistics 1000;
ALTER TABLE
noovo-new=# analyze core_accessor;
ANALYZE

Sebastjan

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:34 PM, David Wilson <david(dot)t(dot)wilson(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Sebastjan Trepca <trepca(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>         ->  Nested Loop  (cost=0.00..31883.13 rows=2861 width=860)
>> (actual time=0.089..543.497 rows=68505 loops=1)
>>               ->  Index Scan using core_accessor_fresh_idx on
>> core_accessor  (cost=0.00..5460.07 rows=2970 width=92) (actual
>> time=0.068..54.921 rows=69312 loops=1)
>>                     Index Cond: ((slot_id = 472) AND (slot_type_id =
>> 119) AND (label = ''::text) AND (user_id = 0) AND (role = 0) AND
>> (publish_state >= 60))
>
> That index scan on core_accessor_fresh_idx has a pretty big disparity
> between what the planer expects to get (2970 rows) and what it
> actually gets (69312 rows). You should try increasing the statistics
> target if you haven't, then re-analyze and try the query again to see
> if the planner picks something better. The default of 10 is pretty
> small- try 100, or higher.
>
>
>
> --
> - David T. Wilson
> david(dot)t(dot)wilson(at)gmail(dot)com
>