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Re: sequence scan problem


  • From: John Beaver <john(dot)e(dot)beaver(at)gmail(dot)com>
  • To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • Cc: Jeremy Harris <jgh(at)wizmail(dot)org>, Pgsql-Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: sequence scan problem
  • Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:37:58 -0400
  • Message-id: <48697C66.5040501@gmail.com> <text/plain>

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&lt;chuckle&gt; You're right - for some reason I was looking at the (18
rows) at the bottom. Pilot error indeed - I'll have to figure out
what's going on with my data.<br>
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Thanks!<br>
<br>
Tom Lane wrote:
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  <pre wrap="">John Beaver <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:john(dot)e(dot)beaver(at)gmail(dot)com">&lt;john(dot)e(dot)beaver(at)gmail(dot)com&gt;</a> writes:
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    <pre wrap="">Ok, here's the explain analyze result. Again, this is Postgres 8.3.3 and 
I vacuumed-analyzed both tables directly after they were created.
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    <pre wrap=""> Merge Join  (cost=1399203593.41..6702491234.74 rows=352770803726 
width=22) (actual time=6370194.467..22991303.434 rows=15610535128 loops=1)
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  <pre wrap=""><!---->                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^

Weren't you saying that only 50 rows should be returned?  I'm thinking
the real problem here is pilot error: you missed out a needed join
condition or something.  SQL will happily execute underconstrained
queries ...

			regards, tom lane

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