Re: Yet another slow nested loop - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Alexander Staubo
Subject Re: Yet another slow nested loop
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Msg-id 88daf38c0906160816w78a34c0dwd7741e7d8236242e@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Yet another slow nested loop  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Actually the easiest way to fix that is to get rid of the LIMIT.
> (Maybe use a cursor instead, and fetch only twenty rows.)  LIMIT
> magnifies the risks from any estimation error, and you've got a lot
> of that here ...

There's no cursor support in ActiveRecord, the ORM library we use, and
I'm not going to write it. Anyway, I would prefer not to gloss over
the underlying problem with something that requires a "TODO" next to
it. What can be done to fix the underlying problem? Nothing?

A.

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