Re: Query performance issue - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Chris
Subject Re: Query performance issue
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Msg-id 46A5BBD4.8040509@gmail.com
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In response to Query performance issue  ("Jonathan Gray" <jgray@streamy.com>)
Responses Re: Query performance issue
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Jonathan Gray wrote:
> We’re experiencing a query performance problem related to the planner
> and its ability to perform a specific type of merge.
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> We have created a test case (as attached, or here:
> http://www3.streamy.com/postgres/indextest.sql) which involves a
> hypothetical customer ordering system, with customers, orders, and
> customer groups.
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> If we want to retrieve a single customers 10 most recent orders, sorted
> by date, we can use a double index on (customer,date); Postgres’s query
> planner will use the double index with  a backwards index scan on the
> second indexed column (date).
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> However, if we want to retrieve a “customer class’s” 10 most recent
> orders, sorted by date, we are not able to get Postgres to use double
> indexes.

You don't have any indexes on the 'customerclass' table.

Creating a foreign key doesn't create an index, you need to do that
separately.

Try

create index cc_customerid_class on indextest.customerclass(classid,
customerid);

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