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Re: broken 'SHOW TABLE'-like query works in 8, not 8.1.1


  • From: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
  • To: Sebastian <buddhahead(at)gmail(dot)com>
  • Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: broken 'SHOW TABLE'-like query works in 8, not 8.1.1
  • Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:55:25 -0700
  • Message-id: <20051230225525.GA14981@winnie.fuhr.org> <text/plain>

On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 11:02:20AM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 03:15:03AM -0500, Sebastian wrote:
> > Any ideas for a temporary work around?
> 
> You could try querying the system catalogs directly instead of using
> the information_schema views;

You could also set enable_nestloop to off for your original query.
Now that EXPLAIN is fixed it looks like 8.1.1 is choosing a nested
loop where a hash join is actually much faster.

-- 
Michael Fuhr



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