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From: Gavin Sherry <[email protected]>
To: Anjan Kumar. A. <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Problem with the Planner
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:20:16 +1100 (EST)
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On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Anjan Kumar. A. wrote:

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> Please observe the following queries. Why PostgreSQL is favouring MergeJoin eventhough, it leading to higher execution times than NestedLoopJoin. Any suggestions to fix this problem.
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> bench=# EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT * FROM tenk1 t1, tenk2 t2 WHERE t1.unique1 < 50 AND t1.unique2 = t2.unique2;
>                                                                   QUERY PLAN
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   Merge Join  (cost=665.09..4704.60 rows=166701 width=488) (actual time=10.128..40.843 rows=50 loops=1)
>     Merge Cond: ("outer".unique2 = "inner".unique2)
>     ->  Index Scan using tenk2_unique2 on tenk2 t2  (cost=0.00..1514.00 rows=10000 width=244) (actual time=0.031..20.520 rows=10000 loops=1)
>     ->  Sort  (cost=665.09..673.42 rows=3334 width=244) (actual time=9.601..9.646 rows=50 loops=1)
>           Sort Key: t1.unique2
>           ->  Seq Scan on tenk1 t1  (cost=0.00..470.00 rows=3334 width=244) (actual time=0.154..9.140 rows=50 loops=1)
>                 Filter: (unique1 < 50)
>   Total runtime: 41.101 ms
> (8 rows)

Your statistics are way off. The seqscan on tenk1 estimates 3334 rows but
gets only 50. Run ANALYZE and try again.

Thanks,

Gavin

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