I thought that first column from left in multi-column index can and will be used just as it would be a single column index. It doesn’t seem to work with unqiue indexes, which ultimetly makes sense. Thank you Gerardo. > On 07 Jun 2016, at 19:36, Gerardo Herzig <gherzig@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I dont think offers_source_id_o_key_idx will be used at all. It is a UNIQUE index on (source_id, o_key), but your query does not filter for any "o_key", so reading that index does not provide the pointers needed to fetch the actual data in the table. > > I will try an index on source_id, offer_next_update(offers.update_ts, offers.update_freq) and see what happens > > HTH > Gerardo > > ----- Mensaje original ----- >> De: "Rafał Gutkowski" <goodkowski@xxxxxxxxx> >> Para: pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Enviados: Martes, 7 de Junio 2016 10:39:14 >> Asunto: Combination of partial and full indexes >> >> >> Hi. >> >> >> I had a fight with a query planner because it doesn’t listen. >> >> >> There are two indexes: >> >> >> - with expression in descending order: >> "offers_offer_next_update_idx" btree (offer_next_update(update_ts, >> update_freq) DESC) WHERE o_archived = false >> - unique with two columns: >> "offers_source_id_o_key_idx" UNIQUE, btree (source_id, o_key) >> >> >> Here's the query with filter for offers.source_id columns which >> is pretty slow because "offers_source_id_o_key_idx" is not used: >> >> >> EXPLAIN ANALYZE >> SELECT offers.o_url AS offers_o_url >> FROM offers >> WHERE offers.source_id = 1 AND offers.o_archived = false AND now() > >> offer_next_update(offers.update_ts, offers.update_freq) >> ORDER BY offer_next_update(offers.update_ts, offers.update_freq) DESC >> LIMIT 1000; >> >> >> Limit (cost=0.68..23403.77 rows=1000 width=116) (actual >> time=143.544..147.870 rows=1000 loops=1) >> -> Index Scan using offers_offer_next_update_idx on offers >> (cost=0.68..1017824.69 rows=43491 width=116) (actual >> time=143.542..147.615 rows=1000 loops=1) >> Index Cond: (now() > offer_next_update(update_ts, update_freq)) >> Filter: (source_id = 1) >> Rows Removed by Filter: 121376 >> Total runtime: 148.023 ms >> >> >> >> >> When I remove filter on offers.source_id, query plan looks like this: >> >> >> EXPLAIN ANALYZE >> SELECT offers.o_url AS offers_o_url >> FROM offers >> WHERE offers.o_archived = false AND now() > >> offer_next_update(offers.update_ts, offers.update_freq) >> ORDER BY offer_next_update(offers.update_ts, offers.update_freq) DESC >> LIMIT 1000; >> >> >> Limit (cost=0.68..4238.27 rows=1000 width=116) (actual >> time=0.060..3.877 rows=1000 loops=1) >> -> Index Scan using offers_offer_next_update_idx on offers >> (cost=0.68..1069411.78 rows=252363 width=116) (actual >> time=0.058..3.577 rows=1000 loops=1) >> Index Cond: (now() > offer_next_update(update_ts, update_freq)) >> Total runtime: 4.031 ms >> >> >> >> >> I even tried to change orders of conditions in second query but it >> doesn't seem >> to make a difference for a planner. >> >> >> Shouldn't query planner use offers_source_id_o_key_idx to speed up >> query above? >> >> >> >> >> PostgreSQL version: PostgreSQL 9.3.12 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, >> compiled by gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.1) 4.8.4, 64-bit >> >> >> Configuration: >> name | current_setting | source >> ------------------------------+----------------------------------------+---------------------- >> application_name | psql | client >> checkpoint_completion_target | 0.9 | configuration file >> checkpoint_segments | 3 | configuration file >> client_encoding | UTF8 | client >> DateStyle | ISO, MDY | configuration file >> default_text_search_config | pg_catalog.english | configuration file >> effective_cache_size | 128MB | configuration file >> external_pid_file | /var/run/postgresql/9.3-main.pid | configuration >> file >> lc_messages | en_US.UTF-8 | configuration file >> lc_monetary | en_US.UTF-8 | configuration file >> lc_numeric | en_US.UTF-8 | configuration file >> lc_time | en_US.UTF-8 | configuration file >> max_connections | 100 | configuration file >> max_locks_per_transaction | 168 | configuration file >> max_stack_depth | 2MB | environment variable >> port | 5432 | configuration file >> shared_buffers | 4GB | configuration file >> temp_buffers | 12MB | configuration file >> unix_socket_directories | /var/run/postgresql | configuration file >> work_mem | 16MB | configuration file >> >> >> >> >> Definitions: >> >> >> >> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.offer_next_update(last timestamp >> without time zone, minutes smallint) >> RETURNS timestamp without time zone >> LANGUAGE plpgsql >> IMMUTABLE >> AS $function$ >> BEGIN >> RETURN last + (minutes || ' min')::interval; >> END >> $function$ >> >> >> >> -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
