> -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 5:12 PM > To: David Greco > Cc: pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Real vs Int performance > > David Greco <David_Greco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Came across a problem I find perplexing. I recreated the > dimensional > > tables in Oracle and the fields that are integers in Oracle became > > integers in Postgres. Was experiencing terrible performance > during the > > load and narrowed down to a particular dimensional lookup > problem. > ....................................... > ....................................... > ....................................... > ....................................... > In real life, this query is actually bound and parameterized, > > In that case, an EXPLAIN using literal constants is next door > to useless in terms of telling you what will happen in real > life. You need to pay attention to exactly how the > parameterization is done. Again, I'm suspecting a wrong > datatype indication. > > regards, tom lane > To see what happens with parametrized query in "real life" you could try "auto_explain" contrib module. Regards, Igor Neyman -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance