Re: Slow performance with no apparent reason

I guess my first message was not accurate, since t1 is a view, that includes t2.

Attached are the real queries with their corresponding plans, the first one takes 10.8 sec to execute, the second one takes 0.6 sec.

To simplify, I expanded the view, so the attached query refers to tables only.

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

Please supply EXPLAIN ANALYZE output.

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 12:25:37AM +0300, Yonatan Goraly wrote: 

I am in the process of  adding PostgreSQL support for an application, in 
addition to Oracle and MS SQL.
I am using PostgreSQL version 7.3.2, Red Hat 9.0 on Intel Pentium III board.

I have a query that generally looks like this:

SELECT t1.col1, t2.col1 FROM t1, t2 WHERE t1.x=t2.y AND t2.p='string' 
AND t2.q=1

This query is strikingly slow (about 100 sec when both t1 and t2 has 
about 1,200 records, compare with less than 4 sec with MS SQL and Oracle)

The strange thing is that if I remove one of the last 2 conditions 
(doesn't matter which one), I get the same performance like with the 
other databases.
Since in this particular case both conditions ( t2.p='string', t2.q=1) 
are not required, I can't understand why having both turns the query so 
slow.
A query on table t2 alone is fast with or without the 2 conditions.

I tired several alternatives, this one works pretty well:

SELECT t1.col1, t2.col1 FROM t1, t2 WHERE t1.x=t2.y AND   EXISTS (           SELECT * FROM t2 t2a WHERE t2a.p='string' AND t2a.q=1 AND 
t2a.y=t2.y )

Since the first query is simpler than the second, it seems to me like a bug.

Please advise

Yonatan