am Tue, dem 25.11.2008, um 15:34:57 +0800 mailte Guillaume Bog folgendes: > Hi dear Postgres users. > > I have performance issues if I do the following pseudo-query: > > SELECT a, b, (SELECT count(*) FROM t2 WHERE something) AS c > FROM t1 ORDER BY a LIMIT 10; > > After some tests, it seems to me that the subquery on t2 is computed for all > rows of t1. As I don't "ORDER BY c", there is no need to compute c for every > row. I know I can (or should ?) work with joins or with a subquery in the from > clause, but I'd like to make sure there is no other way before changing my > sqls. Please check your presumption with explain analyse <your query>. For example: test=*# explain analyse select t1.*, (select count(1) from t2) from t1 order by 1 limit 5; QUERY PLAN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Limit (cost=186.54..186.55 rows=5 width=4) (actual time=0.087..0.104 rows=3 loops=1) InitPlan -> Aggregate (cost=36.75..36.76 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=0.022..0.024 rows=1 loops=1) -> Seq Scan on t2 (cost=0.00..31.40 rows=2140 width=0) (actual time=0.004..0.008 rows=1 loops=1) -> Sort (cost=149.78..155.13 rows=2140 width=4) (actual time=0.082..0.088 rows=3 loops=1) Sort Key: i -> Seq Scan on t1 (cost=0.00..31.40 rows=2140 width=4) (actual time=0.046..0.056 rows=3 loops=1) Total runtime: 0.197 ms (8 rows) Both tables executes only one scan. Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general