On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah.rajesh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a query in which two huge tables (A,B) are joined using an indexed > column and a search is made on tsvector on some column on B. Very limited > rows of B are expected to match the query on tsvector column. > > With default planner settings the query takes too long ( > 100 secs) , but > with hashjoin off it returns almost immediately. The question is , is > it is advisable to > tweak planner settings for specific queries in application ? The ones that start with "enable_" usually shouldn't be changed. They're mostly for debugging and finding problems. > The plans are as follows. It's a little hard to figure out what's gone wrong here because you've only included EXPLAIN ANALYZE output for one of the plans - the other is just regular EXPLAIN. Can you send that, along with the output of the following query: SELECT SUM(1) FROM trade_leads WHERE status = 'm' I'm guessing that the problem is that the selectivity estimate for co_name_vec @@ to_tsquery('plastic&tubes') is not very good, but I'm not real familiar with full text search, so I'm not sure whether there's anything sensible you can do about it. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance