Have you tried running ANALYZE on the temp table before selecting out of it? That should give it the statistics necessary to correctly guess the output of a group by on a single column. ANALYZE temptbl; SELECT dok.* FROM dok JOIN (SELECT dokumnr FROM temptbl GROUP BY dokumnr ) x USING(dokumnr); -----Original Message----- From: Andrus [mailto:kobruleht2@xxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 10:59 AM To: Scott Carey; pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; PFC Subject: Re: analyzing intermediate query Scott, >Often times, switching an inner subselect that requires a distinct to a >group by on that column yields better results. In this case, the IN should >be equivalent, so it probably will not help. This would look like: SELECT dok.* FROM dok JOIN (SELECT dokumnr FROM temptbl GROUP BY dokumnr ) x USING(dokumnr); Thank you. This may be great idea. I changed my query to use GROUP BY instead of DISTINCT >Whether that hepls depends on how big dokumnr is and where the query >bottleneck is. I'm wondering how this can solve the issue when there is single or few dokumnr columns. Planner still thinks that temptbl projection contains 1000 rows and uses seq scan instead of using bitmap index on dok table. I tried SELECT dok.* FROM dok JOIN (SELECT dokumnr FROM temptbl GROUP BY dokumnr ANALYZE ) x USING(dokumnr); but got error. > Note there are subtle differences between DISTINCT and GROUP BY with > respect to nulls. dokumnr is int type and is not null always. Andrus. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
