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From: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
To: Ulrich <ulrich.mierendorff@gmx.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Subquery WHERE IN or WHERE EXISTS faster?
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:01:08 +0100
Message-ID: <87skuxp3kb.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com> (raw)
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"Ulrich" <ulrich.mierendorff@gmx.net> writes:

> EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT speed FROM processors WHERE id IN (SELECT processorid
> FROM users_processors WHERE userid=4040) ORDER BY speed ASC LIMIT 10 OFFSET 1;
>
> Limit  (cost=113.73..113.75 rows=7 width=5) (actual time=0.335..0.340 rows=10 loops=1)
>   ->  Sort  (cost=113.73..113.75 rows=8 width=5) (actual time=0.332..0.333 rows=11 loops=1)

                                                                                  ^^

>         Sort Key: processors.speed
>         Sort Method:  quicksort  Memory: 17kB
>         ->  Nested Loop  (cost=47.22..113.61 rows=8 width=5) (actual time=0.171..0.271 rows=13 loops=1)
>               ->  HashAggregate  (cost=47.22..47.30 rows=8 width=4) (actual time=0.148..0.154 rows=13 loops=1)
>                     ->  Bitmap Heap Scan on users_processors  (cost=4.36..47.19 rows=12 width=4) (actual time=0.074..0.117 rows=13 loops=1)

                                                                                                                                  ^^

>                                 Index Cond: (userid = 4040)
>               ->  Index Scan using processors_pkey on processors (cost=0.00..8.28 rows=1 width=9) (actual time=0.006..0.007 rows=1 loops=13)
>                     Index Cond: (processors.id = users_processors.processorid)


It looks to me like you have some processors which appear in
"users_processors" but not in "processors". I don't know your data model but
that sounds like broken referential integrity  to me.

-- 
  Gregory Stark
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