Re: index not used when using function

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От Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud
Тема Re: index not used when using function
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Msg-id opsfavznrzcq72hf@musicbox
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Ответ на index not used when using function  (Shiar <postgres@shiar.org>)
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    Maybe add an order by artist to force a groupaggregate ?


> Hi all, a small question:
>
> I've got this table "songs" and an index on column artist.  Since
> there's about
> one distinct artist for every 10 rows, it would be nice if it could use
> this
> index when counting artists.  It doesn't however:
>
> lyrics=> EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT count(DISTINCT artist) FROM songs;
>  Aggregate  (cost=31961.26..31961.26 rows=1 width=14) (actual
> time=808.863..808.864 rows=1 loops=1)
>    ->  Seq Scan on songs  (cost=0.00..31950.41 rows=4341 width=14)
> (actual time=26.801..607.172 rows=25207 loops=1)
>  Total runtime: 809.106 ms
>
> Even with enable_seqscan to off, it just can't seem to use the index.
> The same
> query without the count() works just fine:
>
> lyrics=> EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT DISTINCT artist FROM songs;
>  Unique  (cost=0.00..10814.96 rows=828 width=14) (actual
> time=0.029..132.903 rows=3280 loops=1)
>    ->  Index Scan using songs_artist_key on songs  (cost=0.00..10804.11
> rows=4341 width=14) (actual time=0.027..103.448 rows=25207 loops=1)
>  Total runtime: 135.697 ms
>
> Of course I can just take the number of rows from the latter query, but
> I'm
> still wondering why it can't use indexes with functions.
>
> Thanks



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