Re: Unnecessary scan on a partial index slows down query dramatically

Thanks. I'm not really in a position to upgrade at the moment. I guess
in the short-term I'll tweak the query to work around this (e.g.
removing "status = 3" or adding more refining conditions both seem to
work).

Please let me know if there are configuration settings I should try.

Thanks,
Jimmy


On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Jimmy Choi" <yhjchoi@gmail.com> writes:
>  > A simple query is executing much slower than expected. When looking at
>  > the query plan, I see a bitmap index scan on a partial index that does
>  > not have any associated index condition. How could that happen?
>
>  Easily --- it thinks that the partial index predicate is useful in
>  itself.
>
>
>  > "vacuum analyze" doesn't solve the problem. I'm running 8.1.5.
>
>  choose_bitmap_and was rewritten (again) in 8.1.9.  Try a newer
>  version.
>
>  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2007-04/msg00233.php
>
>                         regards, tom lane
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