Re: Outer joins and equivalence - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Outer joins and equivalence
Date
Msg-id 1212426644.4120.378.camel@ebony.site
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In response to Re: Outer joins and equivalence  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Outer joins and equivalence
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On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 17:43 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > I have a complex query where making a small change to the SQL increases
> > run-time by > 1000 times.
>
> > The first SQL statement is of the form
>
> > A JOIN B ON (a.id = b.id) LEFT JOIN C ON (a.id = c.id)
>
> > and the second is like this
>
> > A JOIN B ON (a.id = b.id) LEFT JOIN C ON (b.id = c.id)
>
> > the only difference is the substitution of a -> b
>
> Please provide an actual test case.

Getting closer, but still not able to produce a moveable test case.

Symptoms are

* using partitioning
* when none of the partitions are excluded
* when equivalence classes ought to be able to reconcile join

Still working on it

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