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From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
To: Craig James <cjames@emolecules.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: UNION causes horrible plan on JOIN
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 17:45:53 -0500
Message-ID: <20191028224553.GP23808@telsasoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFwQ8reoBtrjfBM3rJuFg2LndWu-LHbXsU4knDyrVK+wo8PAug@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 03:40:58PM -0700, Craig James wrote:
> On Postgres 9.6 (config below), I have a case I don't understand: three
> tables that can be separately queried in milliseconds, but when put
> together into one view using UNION, take 150 seconds to query. Here's the
> rough idea (actual details below):

Do you want UNION ALL ?

UNION without ALL distintifies the output.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-select.html#SQL-UNION

Justin





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