Re: join to view over custom aggregate seems like it should be faster - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: join to view over custom aggregate seems like it should be faster
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Msg-id 27416.1176224586@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: join to view over custom aggregate seems like it should be faster  ("Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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"Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
> For some reason, I can't get the index to be used on the table sitting
> under a view during a join, even though it should be, or at least it
> seems....

Nope, that's not going to work, because the aggregate keeps the subquery
from being flattened into the upper query, which is what would have to
happen for a nestloop-with-inner-indexscan join to be considered.
AFAICS you've got to structure it so that the aggregation happens above
the join.

            regards, tom lane

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