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Re: Weird index or sort behaviour

От: Tom Lane
Тема: Re: Weird index or sort behaviour
Дата: ,
Msg-id: 8498.1250607923@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Ответ на: Weird index or sort behaviour  (Matthew Wakeling)
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Weird index or sort behaviour  (Matthew Wakeling, )
 Re: Weird index or sort behaviour  (Tom Lane, )
  Re: Weird index or sort behaviour  (Matthew Wakeling, )
   Re: Weird index or sort behaviour  (Tom Lane, )
    Re: Weird index or sort behaviour  (Tom Lane, )
     Re: Weird index or sort behaviour  (Greg Stark, )
      Re: Weird index or sort behaviour  (Tom Lane, )
       Re: Weird index or sort behaviour  (Matthew Wakeling, )
        Re: Weird index or sort behaviour  (Tom Lane, )
         Re: Weird index or sort behaviour  (Matthew Wakeling, )
          Re: Weird index or sort behaviour  (Tom Lane, )
           Re: Weird index or sort behaviour  (Matthew Wakeling, ) 
Matthew Wakeling <> writes:
> I'm seeing some interesting behaviour. I'm executing a query where I
> perform a merge join between two copies of the same table, completely
> symmetrically, and the two sides of the merge are sourced differently.

This is not as surprising as you think.  A mergejoin is *not*
symmetrical between its two inputs: the inner side is subject to being
partially rewound and rescanned when the outer side is advanced to a new
row with the same merge key.  This means there is a premium on cheap
rescan for the inner side that doesn't exist for the outer ... and a
sort node is cheaper to rescan than a generic indexscan.  It's
impossible to tell from the data you provided whether the planner was
correct to pick a sort over an indexscan for the inner side, but the
fact that it did so is not prima facie evidence of a bug.  You could
force choice of the other plan via enable_sort = off and then compare
estimated and actual runtimes to see if the planner got it right.

            regards, tom lane

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