Re: Optimizing queries - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Optimizing queries
Date
Msg-id 1159805300.2659.196.camel@holly
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In response to Re: Optimizing queries  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-performance
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 16:42 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Patrice Beliveau <pbeliveau@avior.ca> writes:
> >>> SELECT * FROM TABLE
> >>> WHERE TABLE.COLUMN1=something
> >>> AND TABLE.COLUMN2=somethingelse
> >>> AND function(TABLE.COLUMN3,TABLE.COLUMN4) > 0;
>
> > I find out that the function process every row even if the row should be
> > rejected as per the first or the second condition.
> > ... I'm using version 8.1.3
>
> PG 8.1 will not reorder WHERE clauses for a single table unless it has
> some specific reason to do so (and AFAICT no version back to 7.0 or so
> has done so either...)  So there's something you are not telling us that
> is relevant.  Let's see the exact table schema (psql \d output is good),
> the exact query, and EXPLAIN output for that query.

Is WHERE clause re-ordering done for 8.2, or is that still a TODO item?
(Don't remember seeing that at all).

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  Simon Riggs
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