On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Evgeny Shishkin <itparan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> OP joins 8 tables, and i suppose join collapse limit is set to default 8. I >>> thought postgresql's optimiser is not mysql's. >> >> It's not obvious to me that there's anything very wrong with the plan. >> An 8-way join that produces 150K rows is unlikely to run in milliseconds >> no matter what the plan. The planner would possibly have done the last >> join step differently if it had had a better rowcount estimate, but even >> if that were free the query would still have been 7 seconds (vs 8.5). >> > > May be in this case it is. I once wrote to this list regarding similar > problem - joining 4 tables, result set are off by 2257 times - 750ms vs less > then 1ms. Unfortunately the question was not accepted to the list. > > I spoke to Bruce Momjian about that problem on one local conference, he said > shit happens :)
I think it's more likely a missing FK constraint. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance