On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> David Blewett <da...@dawninglight.net> writes:
> > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> Thanks.  Could I trouble you for one other data point --- about how many
> >> rows are in each of these tables?
>
> > Not a problem:
>
> As best I can tell, the selectivity numbers are about what they should
> be --- for instance, using these stats I get a selectivity of 0.0000074
> for the join clause fkr.submission_id = tr.submission_id.  Over the
> entire relations (646484 and 142698 rows) that's predicting a join size
> of 683551, which seems to be in the right ballpark (it looks like
> actually it's one join row per canvas_foreignkeyresponse row, correct?).


I took the time to load this data into an 8.4beta2 install, and the same
query runs in a much more reasonable timeframe (~3s as opposed to ~50s). I
set the statistics target to 500, and got this explain [1].

David

1. http://explain.depesz.com/s/pw

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