Tom,
Thanks for the reply.
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> What's your setting of join_collapse_limit, and if it's less than
> 27, does raising it fix this query?
>
We raised it to 30 and restarted postgres but the query plan still touched
all of the tables. I'm not sure
> The GROUP BY has nothing to do with it, but if all the other tables' join
> keys are primary keys (or at least unique), I'd expect the planner to get
> rid of the joins. However, I'm not sure whether it works completely when
> there are more than join_collapse_limit relations to worry about.
>
Not all of the join columns are unique, but most of them are unique, and
all of them are indexed on one side or the other... FWIW.
Moshe Jacobson
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