Re: optimizer not optimizing

Yes, I did an analyze, and see this behavior.

-albert


On 30.6.2005, at 20:39, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Albert Vernon Smith wrote:
>
>> I am in process of migrating from Pg 7.4.5 to 8.0.3.  I have the
>> same  data loaded in to the two.  However, when I do a query on my
>> 8.0.3  installation, I am not getting a very well optimized
>> query.  (All the  memory settings are equivalent.)
>>
>
> Did you analyze on 8.0.3?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
>> On 8.0.3, I get the following query plan:
>> dbsnp_b125=# explain select * from b125_snpcontigloc_34_3 h join
>> b125_contiginfo_34_3 c on c.ctg_id=h.ctg_id and c.contig_label=
>> 'reference' join b125_snpmapinfo_34_3 m on m.snp_id=h.snp_id and
>> m.assembly = 'reference' limit 50;
>>
>> QUERY  PLAN
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> --- ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> Limit  (cost=13.17..23330.15 rows=50 width=1324)
>>    ->  Nested Loop  (cost=13.17..63181113458.28 rows=135483020
>> width=1324)
>>          Join Filter: ("outer".snp_id = "inner".snp_id)
>>          ->  Index Scan using i_assembly_snpmapinfo_34 on
>> b125_snpmapinfo_34_3 m  (cost=0.00..391516.14 rows=113292 width=204)
>>                Index Cond: ((assembly)::text = 'reference'::text)
>>          ->  Hash Join  (cost=13.17..554703.83 rows=239175
>> width=1120)
>>                Hash Cond: ("outer".ctg_id = "inner".ctg_id)
>>                ->  Seq Scan on b125_snpcontigloc_34_3 h
>> (cost=0.00..472573.94 rows=15944994 width=676)
>>                ->  Hash  (cost=13.16..13.16 rows=3 width=444)
>>                      ->  Index Scan using
>> i_contiginfo_contig_label_125 on b125_contiginfo_34_3 c
>> (cost=0.00..13.16 rows=3 width=444)
>>                            Index Cond: ((contig_label)::text =
>> 'reference'::text)
>> (11 rows)
>> While on 7.4.3, I get:
>> dbsnp_b125=# explain select * from b125_snpcontigloc_34_3 h join
>> b125_contiginfo_34_3 c on c.ctg_id=h.ctg_id and c.contig_label=
>> 'reference' join b125_snpmapinfo_34_3 m on m.snp_id=h.snp_id and
>> m.assembly = 'reference' limit 50;
>>                                                           QUERY PLAN
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> --- -------------------------------------------------------
>> Limit  (cost=0.00..318.79 rows=50 width=441)
>>    ->  Nested Loop  (cost=0.00..1019222.39 rows=159859 width=441)
>>          ->  Nested Loop  (cost=0.00..313911.04 rows=175220
>> width=359)
>>                ->  Index Scan using i_b125_34_contig_label on
>> b125_contiginfo_34_3 c  (cost=0.00..6.75 rows=3 width=252)
>>                      Index Cond: ((contig_label)::text =
>> 'reference'::text)
>>                ->  Index Scan using i_b125h_34_ctg_id on
>> b125_snpcontigloc_34_3 h  (cost=0.00..103904.68 rows=58407 width=107)
>>                      Index Cond: ("outer".ctg_id = h.ctg_id)
>>          ->  Index Scan using i_b125_map_34_snp_id on
>> b125_snpmapinfo_34_3 m  (cost=0.00..4.01 rows=1 width=82)
>>                Index Cond: (m.snp_id = "outer".snp_id)
>>                Filter: ((assembly)::text = 'reference'::text)
>> (10 rows)
>> What could be the reason for this behavior???
>> (I posted something similar a little while back, but I've still
>> not  solved this issue.)
>> Thanks,
>> -albert
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