Re: Strange explain on partitioned tables

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Philippe Rimbault wrote:
I have one thousand inherited tables like this one (with a different check constraint on each) :

The PostgreSQL partitioning system is aimed to support perhaps a hundred inherited tables. You can expect to get poor performance on queries if you create 1000 of them. That's not the cause of your current problem, just pointing out there's a larger design problem here you'll probably have to fix one day.

EXPLAIN ANALYZE
    select
        documents.id,
        documents.num,
        sources.name,
        l.name
    from
        documents,
        locations l,
        sources
    where
        documents.id_source = 113 and
        documents.id_location=l.id and
        documents.id_source=sources.id
    order by
        documents.id desc
    limit 5;

Please don't put your EXPLAIN plans surrounded in " marks; it makes it harder to copy out of your message to analyze them with tools. I put this bad one into http://explain.depesz.com/s/XD and it notes that the "public.documents.id_location = l.id" search is underestimating the number of rows by a factor of 8.7. You might get a better plan if you can get better table statistics on that column. Did you run ANALYZE since the partitioning was done? If not, that could be making this worse. You might increase the amount of table statistics on this specific column too, not sure what would help without knowing exactly what's in there.

Another thing you can try is suggest the optimizer not use a hash join here and see if it does the right thing instead; be a useful bit of feedback to see what that plan turns out to be. Just put "set enable_hashjoin=off;" before the rest of the query, it will only impact that session.

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