Re: Aggregate and many LEFT JOIN

Thanks for your answers. I tried with

> set session work_mem='250MB';
> set session geqo_threshold = 20;
> set session join_collapse_limit = 20;

It seems to have no real impact :

https://explain.depesz.com/s/CBVd

Indeed an index cannot really be used for sorting here, based on the complexity of the returned fields.

Wich strikes me is that if I try to simplify it a lot, removing all data but the main table (occtax.observation) primary key cd_nom and aggregate, the query plan should be able tu use the cd_nom index for sorting and provide better query plan (hash aggregate), but it does not seems so :

* SQL ; http://paste.debian.net/hidden/c3ee7889/

* EXPLAIN : https://explain.depesz.com/s/FR3h -> a group aggregate is used, which : GroupAggregate     1     10,639.313 ms     72.6 %

It is better, but I think 10s for such a query seems bad perf for me.

Regards

Michaël

Le ven. 22 févr. 2019 à 19:06, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> a écrit :

Michael Lewis <mlewis@entrata.com> writes:
> Does the plan change significantly with this-
> set session work_mem='250MB';
> set session geqo_threshold = 20;
> set session join_collapse_limit = 20;

Yeah ... by my count there are 16 tables in this query, so raising
join_collapse_limit to 15 is not enough to ensure that the planner
considers all join orders.  Whether use of GEQO is a big problem
is harder to say, but it might be.

                        regards, tom lane