Re: [GENERAL] OUTER JOIN IS SLOW

Hi,

I did a vacuum with -z and it fixed the issue.  I was not aware that
vacuumdb didn't ANALYZE by default.    Thanks everybody for all of the help!

Benjamin

Tom Lane wrote:
> Benjamin Arai <benjamin@araisoft.com> writes:
>
>>    ->  Index Scan using mutualfd_weekday_qbid_pkey_idx on
>> mutualfd_weekday_qbid  (cost=0.00..6.01 rows=1 width=19) (actual
>> time=34.579..8510.801 rows=253 loops=1)
>>          Index Cond: ((pkey >= '2005-12-15'::date) AND (pkey <=
>> '2006-12-15'::date))
>>          Filter: (cusip = '92193920'::text)
>>
>
> Hm, so how many rows in mutualfd_weekday_qbid for that date?
> And how many satisfy the cusip condition?  (I suppose 253,
> but it looks like that must be a very small fraction of all
> the rows for that date.)
>
> The selectivity estimators are not great about dealing with
> zero-width intervals like this one (in fact, if you look at the
> code you'll find it doesn't even bother to distinguish '>' from '>='
> ... something we should probably try to improve sometime).
>
> You'd probably have better luck if you could fold the WHERE condition
> down to "pkey = '2005-12-15'".  Dunno how feasible that is for your
> application.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
>