Re: limit 1 and functional indexes - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: limit 1 and functional indexes
Date
Msg-id 20040129151146.GB6865@wolff.to
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In response to Re: limit 1 and functional indexes  ("Alexandra Birch" <alexandra@trymedia.com>)
Responses Re: limit 1 and functional indexes
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 16:02:06 +0100, Alexandra Birch <alexandra@trymedia.com> wrote:
> 
> Here is the output of EXPLAIN ANALYZE first with limit 1 then without:

The time estimate for the limit 1 case is way off. I can't tell if that
is a bug or not having detailed enough statistics.

Hopefully someone more knowlegable will take a look at this question.

> 
> explain analyze
> select code
> from transactions
> where UPPER(pop) = UPPER('79bcdc8a4a4f99e7c111111111111111')
> order by order_date DESC LIMIT 1;
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Limit  (cost=0.00..332.44 rows=1 width=33) (actual time=377745.75..377745.75 rows=0 loops=1)
>    ->  Index Scan Backward using transactions_date_aff on transactions  (cost=0.00..982549.96 rows=2956 width=33)
(actual
> time=377718.61..377718.61 rows=0 loops=1)
>          Filter: (upper((pop)::text) = '79BCDC8A4A4F99E7C111111111111111'::text)
>  Total runtime: 378439.32 msec
> 
> explain analyze
> select code
> from transactions
> where UPPER(pop) = UPPER('79bcdc8a4a4f99e7c111111111111111')
> order by order_date DESC;
>                                                                    QUERY PLAN
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------
>  Sort  (cost=11824.16..11831.55 rows=2956 width=33) (actual time=248.17..248.17 rows=0 loops=1)
>    Sort Key: order_date
>    ->  Index Scan using transactions_pop_i on transactions  (cost=0.00..11653.79 rows=2956 width=33) (actual
time=126.13..126.13
> rows=0 loops=1)
>          Index Cond: (upper((pop)::text) = '79BCDC8A4A4F99E7C111111111111111'::text)
>  Total runtime: 248.25 msec
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Alexandra
> 


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