Re: Partial index

Christian Rengstl wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> i have a function that looks executes the following command in a while loop in which it iterates through tables
(aTable):
> FOR rec in EXECUTE 'SELECT count(a.allele_1) as c from aTable a INNER JOIN map_table b on(a.snp_id=upper(b.snp_id))
WHERENOT a.allele_1=a.allele_2 and b.gene=something 
>
> Unfortunately this command leads to 4 minutes of execution for 15 tables of which each has around 3 Million tuples. I
havea partial index on the expression where not allele_1=allele_2 and one on snp_id. 
> Here is the explain i get for the above mentioned command:
> Aggregate  (cost=229621.08..229621.09 rows=1 width=16)
>
>    ->  Merge Join  (cost=496.29..229361.10 rows=103991 width=16)
>
>          Merge Cond: (("outer".snp_id)::text = "inner"."?column2?")
>
>          ->  Index Scan using idx_snpid_pt1 on snp_allel_chr_11pt1 a  (cost=0.00..212667.07 rows=2875580 width=29)
>
>                Filter: ((allele_1)::text <> (allele_2)::text)

Well, it's using the index on snp_id instead, and since you're joining I
can see why.

What column(s) do you index with your partial index? If it's snp_id I'd
think it odd that it wasn't used.

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   Richard Huxton
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