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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Index not used in certain nested views but not in others
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:58:59 -0400
Message-ID: <CANzqJaAaU9RJU8G4hDpAHPB+f6xP4Gf-A_=YAk=E-PZgSVhkdg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250430151647.7kootztymzznydn5@victor>
References: <20250430151647.7kootztymzznydn5@victor>

On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM Markus Demleitner <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> I know how tedious mails with a subject of the type "I don't understand
> what the planner does" are, but on this one I'm really stumped.
> Regrettably, the situation is also a bit complex.  Hopefully, someone
> will bear with me.
>
> So, in a PostgreSQL 15.12 I have a view over a single table with ~20
> columns (the only relevant columns here are the ones that somehow
> contain "pub[lisher]_did", the others are just there for context; I'm
> going to call these "pubdids" from here on in the prose):
>
[snip]

> Is there anything that would explain that behaviour given I've switched
> off the genetic optimiser and postgres has hopefully exhaustively
> searched the space of plans in both cases?
>

Are the tables regularly analyzed and vacuumed?  (The default autovacuum
analyze threshold of 20% is pretty high.)

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