To: "Joshua Marsh" <icub3d@gmail.com>
cc: "Terje Elde" <terje@elde.net>, "Jeff Davis" <pgsql@j-davis.com>,
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Subject: Re: Performance With Joins on Large Tables 
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Comments: In-reply-to "Joshua Marsh" <icub3d@gmail.com>
	message dated "Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:18:49 -0600"
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:23:44 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

"Joshua Marsh" <icub3d@gmail.com> writes:
>> Are the tables perhaps nearly in order by the dsiacctno fields?

> My assumption would be they are in exact order.  The text file I used
> in the COPY statement had them in order, so if COPY preserves that in
> the database, then it is in order.

Ah.  So the question is why the planner isn't noticing that.  What do
you see in the pg_stats view for the two dsiacctno fields --- the
correlation field in particular?

> The system has 8GB of ram and work_mem is set to 256MB.

Seems reasonable enough.  BTW, I don't think you've mentioned exactly
which PG version you're using?

			regards, tom lane