Re: [GENERAL] explain analyze output: 0 rows, 1M loopa

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 1:19 PM, David G. Johnston
<david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> So some of my output from an explain analyze here has a line that says
>> this:
>>
>> ex Scan using warranty_order_item_warranty_order_id_idx on
>> warranty_order_item woi_1 (cost=0.57..277.53 rows=6 width=137) (actual
>> time=0.110..0.111 rows=0 loops=1,010,844)
>
>
> Not my strong suit but, I'm pretty sure that reads: "The index was queried
> 1M+ times and none of those inqueries resulted in a record being found".
> IIUC I'd be wondering why some form of hash join wasn't used...

Thanks I think you've got it. I wish it would fit in a hash but the
dataset this query works on is so big that it spills to disk with
work_mem=16GB... :(


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