Re: [HACKERS] Efficiency again...

> Now here is the plan I expect for a single test1 value
> searchengine=> explain select * from test where test1=1;
> Index Scan on test  (cost=0.00 size=0 width=8)
>
> But look:
> searchengine=> explain select * from test where test1=1 or test1=2;
> Seq Scan on test  (cost=0.00 size=0 width=8)
>
> ugh! Sequential. This may be OK for a small database, but in my
> application I have many rows:
> searchengine=> explain select * from word_detail where word_id=23423 or
> word_id=68548;
>
> Seq Scan on word_detail  (cost=205938.73 size=510342 width=10)
>
> That costs a _LOT_.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to do n sequential scans where n is the number of
> or'd together values? Using IN doesn't help out either...
>
> searchengine=> explain select * from test where test1 IN (5,9);
> Seq Scan on test  (cost=0.00 size=0 width=8)
>
> Sometimes I wish I had the power to tell the DBMS how I wanted a query
> done...

Yep, it is on our TODO list, and we have someone trying some fix for
6.4.  It has to do the conjunctive normal form(cnf).

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