If I disable sequential scans, hash joins, and merge joins, the query plans become the same and performance on the first slow one is much improved.
Is there something else I can do to avoid this problem? below also at https://gist.github.com/joevandyk/34e31b3ad5cccb730a50/raw/8081a4298ba50ac93a86df97c1d0aae482ee7d2d/gistfile1.txt Aggregate (cost=869360.53..869360.54 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=103.102..103.102 rows=1 loops=1) -> Nested Loop (cost=0.00..869164.63 rows=78360 width=0) (actual time=0.253..101.708 rows=8413 loops=1) -> Nested Loop (cost=0.00..438422.95 rows=56499 width=4) (actual time=0.157..51.766 rows=8178 loops=1) -> Index Scan using index_products_on_drop_shipper_id on products (cost=0.00..2312.56 rows=618 width=4) (actual time=0.087..6.318 rows=618 loops=1) Index Cond: (drop_shipper_id = 221) -> Index Scan using index_line_items_on_product_id on line_items li (cost=0.00..702.89 rows=279 width=8) (actual time=0.010..0.069 rows=13 loops=618) Index Cond: (product_id = products.id) -> Index Only Scan using purchased_items_line_item_id_idx on purchased_items pi (cost=0.00..7.60 rows=2 width=4) (actual time=0.005..0.005 rows=1 loops=8178) Index Cond: (line_item_id = li.id) Heap Fetches: 144 Total runtime: 103.442 ms (11 rows) On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Joe Van Dyk <j...@tanga.com> wrote: > On 9.2.4, running two identical queries except for the value of a column > in the WHERE clause. Postgres is picking very different query plans, the > first is much slower than the second. > > Any ideas on how I can speed this up? I have btree indexes for all the > columns used in the query. > > explain analyze > > SELECT COUNT(*) > > FROM purchased_items pi > > inner join line_items li on li.id = pi.line_item_id > > inner join products on products.id = li.product_id > > WHERE products.drop_shipper_id = 221; > > Aggregate (cost=193356.31..193356.32 rows=1 width=0) (actual > time=2425.225..2425.225 rows=1 loops=1) > -> Hash Join (cost=78864.43..193160.41 rows=78360 width=0) (actual > time=726.612..2424.206 rows=8413 loops=1) > Hash Cond: (pi.line_item_id = li.id) > -> Seq Scan on purchased_items pi (cost=0.00..60912.39 > rows=3724639 width=4) (actual time=0.008..616.812 rows=3724639 loops=1) > -> Hash (cost=77937.19..77937.19 rows=56499 width=4) (actual > time=726.231..726.231 rows=8178 loops=1) > Buckets: 4096 Batches: 4 Memory Usage: 73kB > -> Hash Join (cost=1684.33..77937.19 rows=56499 width=4) > (actual time=1.270..723.222 rows=8178 loops=1) > Hash Cond: (li.product_id = products.id) > -> Seq Scan on line_items li (cost=0.00..65617.18 > rows=2685518 width=8) (actual time=0.081..392.926 rows=2685499 loops=1) > -> Hash (cost=1676.60..1676.60 rows=618 width=4) > (actual time=0.835..0.835 rows=618 loops=1) > Buckets: 1024 Batches: 1 Memory Usage: 22kB > -> Bitmap Heap Scan on products > (cost=13.07..1676.60 rows=618 width=4) (actual time=0.185..0.752 rows=618 > loops=1) > Recheck Cond: (drop_shipper_id = 221) > -> Bitmap Index Scan on > index_products_on_drop_shipper_id (cost=0.00..12.92 rows=618 width=0) > (actual time=0.125..0.125 rows=618 loops=1) > Index Cond: (drop_shipper_id = 221) > Total runtime: 2425.302 ms > > > explain analyze > > SELECT COUNT(*) > > FROM purchased_items pi > > inner join line_items li on li.id = pi.line_item_id > > inner join products on products.id = li.product_id > > WHERE products.drop_shipper_id = 2; > > > > > Aggregate (cost=29260.40..29260.41 rows=1 width=0) (actual > time=0.906..0.906 rows=1 loops=1) > -> Nested Loop (cost=0.00..29254.38 rows=2409 width=0) (actual > time=0.029..0.877 rows=172 loops=1) > -> Nested Loop (cost=0.00..16011.70 rows=1737 width=4) (actual > time=0.021..0.383 rows=167 loops=1) > -> Index Scan using index_products_on_drop_shipper_id on > products (cost=0.00..80.41 rows=19 width=4) (actual time=0.010..0.074 > rows=70 loops=1) > Index Cond: (drop_shipper_id = 2) > -> Index Scan using index_line_items_on_product_id on > line_items li (cost=0.00..835.70 rows=279 width=8) (actual > time=0.002..0.004 rows=2 loops=70) > Index Cond: (product_id = products.id) > -> Index Only Scan using purchased_items_line_item_id_idx on > purchased_items pi (cost=0.00..7.60 rows=2 width=4) (actual > time=0.002..0.003 rows=1 loops=167) > Index Cond: (line_item_id = li.id) > Heap Fetches: 5 > Total runtime: 0.955 ms > (11 rows) >