From: Sven R. Kunze <srkunze@mail.de>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Multiple-Table-Spanning Joins with ORs in WHERE Clause
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 15:24:49 +0200
Message-ID: <97dbd6f9-a289-94d1-325f-997df87c672a@mail.de> (raw)
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Hi pgsql-performance list,
what is the recommended way of doing **multiple-table-spanning joins
with ORs in the WHERE-clause**?
Until now, we've used the LEFT OUTER JOIN to filter big_table like so:
SELECT DISTINCT <fields of big_table>
FROM
"big_table"
LEFT OUTER JOIN "table_a" ON ("big_table"."id" =
"table_a"."big_table_id")
LEFT OUTER JOIN "table_b" ON ("big_table"."id" =
"table_b"."big_table_id")
WHERE
"table_a"."item_id" IN (<handful of items>)
OR
"table_b"."item_id" IN (<handful of items>);
However, this results in an awful slow plan (requiring to scan the
complete big_table which obviously isn't optimal).
So, we decided (at least for now) to split up the query into two
separate ones and merge/de-duplicate the result with application logic:
SELECT <fields of big_table>
FROM
"big_table" INNER JOIN "table_a" ON ("big_table"."id" =
"table_a"."big_table_id")
WHERE
"table_a"."item_id" IN (<handful of items>);
SELECT <fields of big_table>
FROM
"big_table" INNER JOIN "table_b" ON ("big_table"."id" =
"table_b"."big_table_id")
WHERE
"table_b"."item_id" IN (<handful of items>);
As you can imagine we would be very glad to solve this issue with a
single query and without having to re-code existing logic of PostgreSQL.
But how?
Best,
Sven
PS: if you require EXPLAIN ANALYZE, I can post them as well.
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