Another planner oddity - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Philip Warner
Subject Another planner oddity
Date
Msg-id 3.0.5.32.20011103194325.00a12ba0@mail.rhyme.com.au
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Responses Re: Another planner oddity
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Another mild planning oddity; this time, the query does not seem to rem,ove
an unreferenced column from the plan. No big deal, but for larger queries
it can significantly increase the cost.

create table g(n text, rn text); 
create table r(n text, p int);
create table t(p int, x int);

-- Basically LOJ t->r->g, and return 'n' from g if found.
create view tv as selectt.p,g.n as gn,x
from t left outer join r on (r.p=t.p)left outer join g on (g.rn = r.n);

explain select (select r.n from r where r.p=tv.p), -- no reference to gn!sum(x)
Fromtv
Group by 1
;

Aggregate  (cost=3378.54..3503.54 rows=2500 width=76) ->  Group  (cost=3378.54..3441.04 rows=25000 width=76)       ->
Sort (cost=3378.54..3378.54 rows=25000 width=76)             ->  Merge Join  (cost=584.18..911.68 rows=25000 width=76)
                ->  Sort  (cost=514.35..514.35 rows=5000 width=44)                         ->  Merge Join
(cost=139.66..207.16rows=5000
 
width=44)                               ->  Sort  (cost=69.83..69.83 rows=1000
width=8)                                     ->  Seq Scan on t  (cost=0.00..20.00
rows=1000 width=8)                               ->  Sort  (cost=69.83..69.83 rows=1000
width=36)                                     ->  Seq Scan on r  (cost=0.00..20.00
rows=1000 width=36)                   ->  Sort  (cost=69.83..69.83 rows=1000 width=32)
!!!!!!                    ->  Seq Scan on g  (cost=0.00..20.00 rows=1000
width=32)                   SubPlan
!?                    ->  Seq Scan on r  (cost=0.00..22.50 rows=5 width=32)


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