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To: Merlin Moncure <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: postgres chooses objectively wrong index
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:16:30 +0600
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On 2026-03-18 03:01, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> I've been maintaining an airflow style orchestrator in pl/pgsql, and
> it's revealed a performance issue I just can't solve. There is a
> table, task, which may normally contain billions of rows, but only a
> tiny portion is interesting for specific reasons—a common pattern in
> task-type systems.
>
> ...
>
> I'm wondering if there are other tricks that might apply here, for
> example, multi column index statistics...curious if anyone has
> thoughts on that.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> merlin
>
Hello. I think planner doesn't have information about distribution of
*async.task_execution_state(task)* unless it's part of any full index. I
would try to give that with extended statistics (postgresql 14+):
create statistics (mcv) task_task_execution_state_stat on ((async.task_execution_state(task))) from async.task;
analyze async.task;
If that won't help - please show distribution from pg_stats_ext view for
extended statistic above.
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Alexey Ermakov
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