hi, I don't understand why the query planner is choosing a BitmapAnd when an Index Scan followed by a filter is obviously better. (Note that "new_york_houses" is a view of table "houses" with one condition on city - and there is an index idx_houses_city. That is the Index Scan that I think it should use exclusively.) Here's a fast query that uses the Index Scan followed by a filter: > => explain analyze SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT id) FROM new_york_houses WHERE roof_area >= 0 AND roof_area < 278.7091; > QUERY PLAN > --- > Aggregate (cost=167298.10..167298.11 rows=1 width=16) (actual time=141.137..141.137 rows=1 loops=1) > -> Index Scan using idx_houses_city on households (cost=0.57..167178.87 rows=47694 width=16) (actual time=0.045..105.953 rows=53971 loops=1) > Index Cond: (city = 'New York'::text) > Filter: ((roof_area >= 0) AND ((roof_area)::numeric < 278.7091)) > Rows Removed by Filter: 101719 > Planning time: 0.688 ms > Execution time: 141.250 ms > (7 rows) When I add another condition, "phoneable", however, it chooses an obviously wrong plan: > => explain analyze SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT id) FROM new_york_houses WHERE roof_area >= 0 AND roof_area < 278.7091 AND phoneable = true; > QUERY PLAN > --- > Aggregate (cost=128163.05..128163.06 rows=1 width=16) (actual time=4564.677..4564.677 rows=1 loops=1) > -> Bitmap Heap Scan on households (cost=105894.80..128147.78 rows=6106 width=16) (actual time=4456.690..4561.416 rows=5183 loops=1) > Recheck Cond: (city = 'New York'::text) > Filter: (phoneable AND (roof_area >= 0) AND ((roof_area)::numeric < 278.7091)) > Rows Removed by Filter: 40103 > Heap Blocks: exact=14563 > -> BitmapAnd (cost=105894.80..105894.80 rows=21002 width=0) (actual time=4453.510..4453.510 rows=0 loops=1) > -> Bitmap Index Scan on idx_houses_city (cost=0.00..1666.90 rows=164044 width=0) (actual time=16.505..16.505 rows=155690 loops=1) > Index Cond: (city = 'New York'::text) > -> Bitmap Index Scan on idx_houses_phoneable (cost=0.00..104224.60 rows=10271471 width=0) (actual time=4384.461..4384.461 rows=10647041 loops=1) > Index Cond: (phoneable = true) > Planning time: 0.709 ms > Execution time: 4565.067 ms > (13 rows) On Postgres 9.4.4 with 244gb memory and SSDs maintenance_work_mem 1000000 work_mem 500000 random_page_cost 1 seq_page_cost 2 The "houses" table has been analyzed recently and has statistics set to the max. Thanks, Seamus -- Seamus Abshere, SCEA https://github.com/seamusabshere https://www.linkedin.com/in/seamusabshere -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
