Re: PostgreSQL OR performance

My main message is that I can see this in many queries and many times. But OK, I can present exact example.

2008/11/5 Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 13:12 +0200, Віталій Тимчишин wrote:
> For a long time already I can see very poor OR performance in
> postgres.
> If one have query like "select something from table where condition1
> or condition2" it may take ages to execute while
> "select something from table where condition1" and "select something
> from table where condition2" are executed very fast and
> "select something from table where condition1 and not condition2 union
> all select something from table where condition2" gives required
> results fast
>

What version are you using?

Server version 8.3.3
 

Have you run "VACUUM ANALYZE"?

I have autovacuum, but for this example I did vacuum analyze of the whole DB.
The real-life query (autogenerated) looks like the next:
select t0.id as pk1,t1.id as pk2 ,t0.run_id as f1_run_id,t1.run_id as f2_run_id
from tmpv_unproc_null_production_company_dup_cons_company as t0, (select * from production.company where run_id in (select id from production.run where name='test')) as t1
where 
t0.name = t1.name
or
(t0.name,t1.name) in (select s1.name, s2.name from atom_match inner join atoms_string s1 on atom_match.atom1_id = s1.id  inner join atoms_string s2 on atom_match.atom2_id = s2.id where s1.atom_type_id = -1 and match_function_id = 2)

with tmpv_unproc_null_production_company_dup_cons_company:

create temporary view tmpv_unproc_null_production_company_dup_cons_company as select * from production.company where 1=1 and status='unprocessed' and run_id in (select id from production.run where name='test')

Next, do:

EXPLAIN ANALYZE select something from table where condition1 or
condition2;

 

without analyze is in OR-plan.txt
Also plans for only condition1, only condition2 and union is attached

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