On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Cédric Villemain <cedric.villemain.deb...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the first query, the planner doesn't use the information of the 2,3,4. > It just does a : I'll bet I'll have 2 rows in t1 (I think it should > say 3, but it doesn't) > So it divide the estimated number of rows in the t2 table by 5 > (different values) and multiply by 2 (rows) : 40040.
I think it's doing something more complicated. See scalararraysel(). > In the second query the planner use a different behavior : it did > expand the value of t1.t to t2.t for each join relation and find a > costless plan. (than the one using seqscan on t2) I think the problem here is one we've discussed before: if the query planner knows that something is true of x (like, say, x = ANY('{2,3,4}')) and it also knows that x = y, it doesn't infer that the same thing holds of y (i.e. y = ANY('{2,3,4}') unless the thing that is known to be true of x is that x is equal to some constant. Tom doesn't think it would be worth the additional CPU time that it would take to make these sorts of deductions. I'm not sure I believe that, but I haven't tried to write the code, either. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance