Re: Queries joining views

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alban Hertroys <alban@magproductions.nl> writes:
>> zorgweb_solaris=> select * from pg_stats where attname = 'number' and
>> tablename IN ('mm_insrel_table', 'mm_product_table', 'mm_object');
>
>> tablename         | mm_product_table
>> histogram_bounds  | {2930,3244,3558,3872,4186,4500,4814,5128,5442,5756,6070}
>
>> tablename         | mm_insrel_table
>> {615920,689286,750855,812003,872741,933041,1004672,1068250,1134894,1198559,1261685}
>
>> tablename         | mm_object
>> histogram_bounds  |
>> {287,124412,256534,375896,505810,643940,770327,899229,1028933,1153260,1262338}
>
> OK, so here's our problem: according to those stats, the ranges of
> "number" in mm_product_table and mm_insrel_table don't overlap at all.

That's correct, the numbers are generated by a global sequence.
Insrel.number can never match a product.number.

However, mm_product.number always matches either mm_insrel.snumber or
mm_insrel.dnumber (source and destination respectively). The other way
around this isn't the case; then snumber and dnumber match number-fields
in other tables (they always do).

> So the cost model for mergejoin predicts that a mergejoin on "number"
> will have to read all of mm_product_table but only the first record from
> mm_insrel_table, and given the difference in size of the two tables,
> that looks like a pretty good deal.
>
> Given that the plan is not actually very fast, I suppose that the
> histogram is not telling the whole truth --- probably there are a few
> outlying records in one table or the other causing there to be a more
> significant overlap than the planner expects.  If so, you can probably
> fix it by increasing the statistics target for that table.

That's a bit odd, as the number fields of the different tables are
globally unique by definition.

>             regards, tom lane

Regards,
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