Miernik <public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I present a SELECT uid plan with the 1000 table also below, just to be > sure, this is the "bad" plan, that takes forever: > > miernik=> EXPLAIN SELECT uid FROM cnts WHERE uid IN (SELECT uid FROM alog WHERE pid = 3452654 AND o = 1); > QUERY PLAN > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Nested Loop IN Join (cost=0.00..3532.70 rows=1 width=4) > -> Seq Scan on cnts (cost=0.00..26.26 rows=1026 width=4) > -> Index Scan using alog_uid_idx on alog (cost=0.00..297.32 rows=1 width=4) > Index Cond: ((alog.uid)::integer = (cnts.uid)::integer) > Filter: ((alog.pid = 3452654::numeric) AND (alog.o = 1::numeric)) > (5 rows) If I reduce the number of rows in cnts to 100, I can actually make an EXPLAIN ANALYZE with this query plan finish in reasonable time: miernik=> EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT uid FROM cnts WHERE uid IN (SELECT uid FROM alog WHERE pid = 555949 AND odp = 1); QUERY PLAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nested Loop IN Join (cost=0.00..3585.54 rows=1 width=4) (actual time=51831.430..267844.815 rows=7 loops=1) -> Seq Scan on cnts (cost=0.00..14.00 rows=700 width=4) (actual time=0.005..148.464 rows=100 loops=1) -> Index Scan using alog_uid_idx on alog (cost=0.00..301.02 rows=1 width=4) (actual time=2676.959..2676.959 rows=0 loops=100) Index Cond: ((alog.uid)::integer = (cnts.uid)::integer) Filter: ((alog.pid = 555949::numeric) AND (alog.odp = 1::numeric)) Total runtime: 267844.942 ms (6 rows) The real running times are about 10 times more than the estimates. Is that normal? -- Miernik http://miernik.name/