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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Ozer, Pam <pozer@automotive.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Slow Query- Bad Row Estimate
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:17:30 -0400
Message-ID: <9343.1288387050@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <216FFB77CBFAEE4B8EE4DF0A939FF1D1018354@mail-001.corp.automotive.com>
References: <216FFB77CBFAEE4B8EE4DF0A939FF1D1018354@mail-001.corp.automotive.com>

"Ozer, Pam" <pozer@automotive.com> writes:
> Unfortunately I have not received a response on this question.  Is more
> information needed?  Does anyone have any ideas why the estimates may be
> bad?  Or what I might be able to do to speed this up?

The most likely explanation for the bad rowcount estimates is that there
is correlation between the regionid/countyid/cityid columns, only the
planner doesn't know it.  Can you reformulate that data representation
at all, or at least avoid depending on it as a join key?

			regards, tom lane



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