Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> Why does the planner want to crawl the table that has 5M rows instead of the one
> with 176k rows? Both tables are freshly vacuum-full-analyzed.
Because you don't have an index on "base" for the files table.
> callrec32=# \d fix.files
> Table "fix.files"
> Column | Type | Modifiers
> --------+------------------------+-----------
> dir | character varying(255) |
> base | character varying(255) |
> Indexes:
> "base_storename_idx" btree (base, ((((dir)::text || '/'::text) || (base)::text)))
> "ff_storename_idx" btree (((((dir)::text || '/'::text) || (base)::text)))
A couple of indexes, but none simple on "base", so it can't be used for
the join.
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
