To be honest, I have simplified the question above. In order to show you the plan, I must show you the actual query, which is this:
=== QUERY === SELECT COUNT(*) FROM "subscriptions" WHERE "subscriptions"."project_id" = 123 AND "subscriptions"."trashed_at" IS NULL AND NOT (tags @> ARRAY['en']::varchar[]); === QUERY PLAN === QUERY PLAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Finalize Aggregate (cost=2152593.04..2152593.05 rows=1 width=8) (actual time=70555.561..70555.561 rows=1 loops=1) -> Gather (cost=2152592.31..2152593.02 rows=7 width=8) (actual time=70540.641..70702.365 rows=8 loops=1) Workers Planned: 7 Workers Launched: 7 -> Partial Aggregate (cost=2151592.31..2151592.32 rows=1 width=8) (actual time=70537.376..70537.377 rows=1 loops=8) -> Parallel Seq Scan on subscriptions (cost=0.00..2149490.49 rows=840731 width=0) (actual time=0.742..70479.359 rows=611828 loops=8) Filter: ((trashed_at IS NULL) AND (NOT (tags @> '{en}'::character varying[])) AND (project_id = 123)) Rows Removed by Filter: 4572769 Planning Time: 1.304 ms Execution Time: 70702.463 ms (10 rows) === INDEXES === Indexes: "subscriptions_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id) "index_subscriptions_on_project_id_and_created_at" btree (project_id, created_at DESC) "index_subscriptions_on_project_id_and_tags" gin (project_id, tags) WHERE trashed_at IS NULL "index_subscriptions_on_project_id_and_trashed_at" btree (project_id, trashed_at DESC) === NOTES === Running the query without the last filter on tags takes only 500ms. Unfortunately I cannot make strict assumptions on data or tags: for example I also have to count subscriptions in a project that don't have tag A and don't have tag B, etc. This means that I cannot simply calculate the total and then make a subtraction. On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 7:40 PM Michael Lewis <mle...@entrata.com> wrote: > What's the plan for the slow one? What's the time to just count all rows? > >>