Re: Worse perfomance on 8.2.0 than on 7.4.14

--- Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> skrev:

>
> The distribution of rows with those values also makes a difference to
> the results. ANALYZE assumes that all values are randomly distributed
> within the table, so if the values are clumped together for whatever
> reason the ndistinct calc is less likely to take that into account.

This is an important factor.

As a summary, one table is defined like this:

Table "public.step_result_subset"
   Column    |  Type   | Modifiers
-------------+---------+-----------
 id          | integer | not null
 uut_result  | integer |
 step_parent | integer |
Indexes:
    "step_result_subset_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id)
    "step_result_subset_parent_key" btree (step_parent)
    "step_result_uut_result_idx" btree (uut_result)

The values in step_result_subset.uut_result is clumped together (between 10 and 1000 of same
value, and also increasing through the table).
The rows where step_result_subset.step_parent is 0 (a special case) is distributed within the
table.

Even when i set statistics on test_result_subset.uut_result to 1000 7.4.14 picks a better plan
than 8.2.0 for some returned datasets. The best results for both 7.4.14 and 8.2.0 is if i remove
the index step_result_subset_parent_key.
I will have to check if other queries which uses step_result_subset.step_parent will be "broken"
by removing the index but i think it should be ok.


I have gotten some ideas from this thread , read some more documentation, read the archives, and
tested other queries and will try to speed up some more advance queries.

Thanks everyone.

best regards
Rolf Østvik



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