To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
From: Alessandro Manzoni <manzoni.alessandro4@gmail.com>
Subject: Strange performance problem
Message-ID: <0f9efbe6-9adc-2732-1257-b4fc0367b0f3@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 18:02:24 +0100
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I have a table, let's say 'tableone' with some thousands rows, on that 
table I created an index on a single field, let's say 'fieldone' of type 
character(3).

I have also a view, let's say 'viewone' that selects rows from tableone 
for a certain value of fieldone (created with the query "select * from 
tableone where fieldone = 'one'" ), so if I try:

select * from tableone where fieldone = 'one'

or

select * from viewone

obviously I get the same result and the same performance: a few ms,

Then I have a complex query that has two complete different 
performances, in these two cases:

case a)
with getfieldone as (select * from tableone where fieldone = 'one')
select * from getfieldone
inner join tabletwo on ... [and other joins]

case b)
select * from viewone
inner join tabletwo on ... [and other joins, the same as case a)]

I expected the same performance, but case a) lasts a few hundreds ms, 
while case b) lasts more than 12 seconds. In both cases I execute as 
explain I see that selecting the table the proper index was involved, 
The database is a test one, so I'm the sole user, and I act as the owner 
role. I don't understand this behavior. What should I do?

Any advise?