Re: Strange plan in pg 8.1.0 - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Mattias Kregert
Subject Re: Strange plan in pg 8.1.0
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Msg-id 003301c6fc2f$57e2c660$09000a0a@kregert.se
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In response to Strange plan in pg 8.1.0  (Mattias Kregert <mattias@kregert.se>)
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>>> From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:05:07PM +0200, Mattias Kregert wrote:
>>          ->  Hash Left Join  (cost=59.66..206763.11 rows=1215336
>> width=27) (actual time=4.959..3228.550 rows=1216434 loops=1)
>>                Hash Cond: (("outer".prislista = ("inner".listid)::text)
>> AND ("outer".tjanst = ("inner".tjanstid)::text))
>
> Note the conversion to text here. Are you sure the types are matching on
> both
> sides of the join?
>
> /* Steinar */

On the left side it is text, and on the right side it is varchar(10).
Casting left side to varchar(10) does not help, in fact it makes things even
worse: The cast to ::text vanishes in a puff of logic, but the plan gets
bigger and even slower (20-25 seconds).

A RIGHT join takes only 20 milliseconds, but i want the left join because
there could be missing rows in the "prislist" table...

/* m */

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