From: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Query performance with disabled hashjoin and mergejoin
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:44:58 -0500
Message-ID: <4D4C10EA.2080901@2ndquadrant.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iigq7o$3ub$1@dough.gmane.org>
References: <iigq7o$3ub$1@dough.gmane.org>
Ivan Voras wrote:
> The "vanilla" plan, with default settings is:
Pause here for a second: why default settings? A default PostgreSQL
configuration is suitable for systems with about 128MB of RAM. Since
you say you have "good enough hardware", I'm assuming you have a bit
more than that. The first things to try here are the list at
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Server ; your bad
query here looks like it might benefit from a large increase to
effective_cache_size, and possibly an increase to work_mem as well.
Your "bad" plan here is doing a lot of sequential scans instead of
indexed lookups, which makes me wonder if the change in join types
you're forcing isn't fixing that part as a coincidence.
Note that the estimated number of rows coming out of each form of plan
is off by a factor of about 200X, so it's not that the other plan type
is better estimating anything.
--
Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US greg@2ndQuadrant.com Baltimore, MD
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