From: Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkwood@catalyst.net.nz>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Partial index slower than regular index
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:40:43 +1200
Message-ID: <4D9BA87B.4090500@catalyst.net.nz> (raw)
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On 06/04/11 11:31, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Thom Brown<thom@linux.com> wrote:
>> I'm using 9.1dev.
> SNIP
>
>> DROP INDEX indextest_stuff;
>>
>> CREATE INDEX indextest_stuff ON indextest(stuff) WHERE stuff = 'bark';
>>
>> postgres=# explain analyze select * from indextest where stuff = 'bark';
>> QUERY PLAN
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Seq Scan on indextest (cost=0.00..143386.48 rows=5606 width=9)
>> (actual time=164.321..1299.794 rows=8000 loops=1)
>> Filter: (stuff = 'bark'::text)
>> Total runtime: 1300.267 ms
>> (3 rows)
>>
>> The index doesn't get used. There's probably a logical explanation,
>> which is what I'm curious about.
> Works fine for me:
>
> explain analyze select * from indextest where stuff = 'bark';
> QUERY
> PLAN
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Index Scan using indextest_stuff on indextest (cost=0.00..837.01
> rows=13347 width=9) (actual time=0.226..6.073 rows=8000 loops=1)
> Index Cond: (stuff = 'bark'::text)
> Total runtime: 7.527 ms
>
> Even with a random_page_cost = 4 it works. Running 8.3.13 btw.
>
I reproduce what Thom sees - using 9.1dev with default config settings.
Even cranking up effective_cache_size does not encourage the partial
index to be used.
Mark
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