Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:35 AM, AI Rumman <rummandba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Please have a look at the following explain plan: >> Hash Join (cost=3665.17..40019.25 rows=640439 width=1603) (actual >> time=115.613..3288.436 rows=638081 loops=1) >> Hash Cond: ("outer".smownerid = "inner".id) >> -> Bitmap Heap Scan on vtiger_crmentity (cost=3646.54..30394.02 >> rows=640439 width=258) (actual time=114.763..986.504 rows=638318 loops=1) >> Recheck Cond: (deleted = 0) >> -> Bitmap Index Scan on vtiger_crmentity_deleted_idx >> (cost=0.00..3646.54 rows=640439 width=0) (actual time=107.851..107.851 >> rows=638318 loops=1) >> Index Cond: (deleted = 0) >> -> Hash (cost=18.11..18.11 rows=211 width=1345) (actual >> time=0.823..0.823 rows=211 loops=1) >> -> Seq Scan on vtiger_users (cost=0.00..18.11 rows=211 >> width=1345) (actual time=0.005..0.496 rows=211 loops=1) >> Total runtime: 3869.022 ms >> >> Sequential index is occuring on vtiger_users table while it has primary key >> index on id. > Cause it's only 211 rows and only takes 0.5 milliseconds to scan? Or, even more to the point, because a nestloop-with-inner-index-scan plan would require 638318 repetitions of the inner index scan. There's no way that is going to be a better plan than this one. Given the rowcounts --- in particular, the fact that each vtiger_users row seems to have a lot of join partners --- I don't think there *is* any better plan than this one. A nestloop with vtiger_crmentity on the inside is the only alternative worth considering, and it doesn't look like that could be any cheaper. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance