I was investigating some performance issues and stumbled upon this behavior:
create table main_table (i serial primary key, data varchar, ord int);
create view main_view_order as select m.i, m.data, m.ord from main_table m order by m.i desc;
insert into main_table select i, i::text, i/10 from generate_series(1,1000000) i;
create index ix_ord on main_table(ord);
analyze main_table;
explain analyze select * from main_view_order m where m.ord >= 5000 and m.ord <= 5500 limit 10;
Limit (cost=0.00..69.01 rows=10 width=14) (actual time=330.943..330.951 rows=10 loops=1)
-> Index Scan Backward using main_table_pkey on main_table m (cost=0.00..36389.36 rows=5281 width=14) (actual
time=330.937..330.940rows=10 loops=1)
Filter: ((ord >= 5000) AND (ord <= 5500))
Total runtime: 330.975 ms
I havent found it on TODO or in archives so I'm wondering if this is a known behavior.
Regards,
Rikard
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Rikard Pavelic
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