From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Svetlin Manavski <svetlin.manavski@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: need to repeat the same condition on joined tables in order to choose the proper plan
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:29:05 -0400
Message-ID: <676.1308068945@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Svetlin Manavski <svetlin.manavski@gmail.com> writes:
> I am really surprised to see that the planner needs me to explicitly specify
> the same condition twice like this:
> SD.detectorid = SS.detectorid
> and SD.sessionid = SS.id
> and SD.detectorid = 1
> and SD.sessionid >= 1001000000000::INT8 and SD.sessionid <=
> 2001000000000::INT8
> and SS.detectorid = 1
> and SS.id >= 1001000000000::INT8 and SS.id <= 2001000000000::INT8
The planner does infer implied equalities, eg, given A = B and B = C
it will figure out that A = C. What you are asking is for it to derive
inequalities, eg infer A < C from A = B and B < C. That would be
considerably more work for considerably less reward, since the sort of
situation where this is helpful doesn't come up very often. On balance
I don't believe it's a good thing for us to do: I think it would make
PG slower on average because on most queries it would just waste time
looking for this sort of situation.
(In this example, the SS.detectorid = 1 clause is in fact unnecessary,
since the planner will infer it from SD.detectorid = SS.detectorid and
SD.detectorid = 1. But it won't infer the range conditions on SS.id
from the range conditions on SD.sessionid or vice versa.)
regards, tom lane
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