Confusing Query Performance - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Hi,

We have a table called "table1" which contains around 638725448 records.
We created a subset of this table and named it as "new_table1" which has around 120107519 records.

"new_table1" is 18% of the the whole "table1".

If we fire the below queries we are not finding any drastic performance gain.


Query 1 :
SELECT SUM(table1.idlv), SUM(table1.cdlv)
       FROM table1, table2 CROSS JOIN table3
       WHERE table1.dk = table2.k 
             AND table2.dt BETWEEN '2008.08.01' AND '2008.08.20'
             AND table1.nk = table3.k
             AND table3.id = 999 ;

Time taken :
9967.051 ms
9980.021 ms


                                                                                       QUERY PLAN                           
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Aggregate  (cost=647373.04..647373.05 rows=1 width=16) (actual time=9918.010..9918.010 rows=1 loops=1)
   ->  Nested Loop  (cost=186.26..647160.32 rows=42543 width=16) (actual time=655.832..6622.011 rows=5120582 loops=1)
         ->  Nested Loop  (cost=0.00..17.42 rows=30 width=8) (actual time=0.024..0.164 rows=31 loops=1)
               ->  Index Scan using ridx on table3  (cost=0.00..8.27 rows=1 width=4) (actual time=0.012..0.014 rows=1 loops=1)
                     Index Cond: (id = 999)
               ->  Index Scan using rdtidx on table2  (cost=0.00..8.85 rows=30 width=4) (actual time=0.008..0.110 rows=31 loops=1)
                     Index Cond: ((table2.dt >= '2008-08-01 00:00:00'::timestamp without time zone) AND (table2.dt <= '2008-08-20 00:00:00'::timestamp without time zone))
         ->  Bitmap Heap Scan on table1  (cost=186.26..21489.55 rows=5459 width=24) (actual time=57.053..170.657 rows=165180 loops=31)
               Recheck Cond: ((table1.nk = table3.k) AND (table1.dk = table2.k))
               ->  Bitmap Index Scan on rndtidx  (cost=0.00..184.89 rows=5459 width=0) (actual time=47.855..47.855 rows=165180 loops=31)
                     Index Cond: ((table1.nk = table3.k) AND (table1.dk = table2.k))
 Total runtime: 9918.118 ms
(12 rows)

Time: 9967.051 ms



Query 2 :

SELECT SUM(new_table1.idlv) , SUM(new_table1.cdlv)
       FROM new_table1, table2 CROSS JOIN table3
       WHERE new_table1.dk = table2.k 
             AND table2.dt BETWEEN '2008.08.01' AND '2008.08.20'
             AND new_table1.nk = table3.k
             AND table3.id = 999 ;

Time taken :
8225.308 ms
8500.728 ms


                                                                                       QUERY PLAN                           
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Aggregate  (cost=414372.59..414372.60 rows=1 width=16) (actual time=8224.300..8224.300 rows=1 loops=1)
   ->  Nested Loop  (cost=0.00..414246.81 rows=25155 width=16) (actual time=19.578..4922.680 rows=5120582 loops=1)
         ->  Nested Loop  (cost=0.00..17.42 rows=30 width=8) (actual time=0.034..0.125 rows=31 loops=1)
               ->  Index Scan using ridx on table3  (cost=0.00..8.27 rows=1 width=4) (actual time=0.020..0.022 rows=1 loops=1)
                     Index Cond: (id = 999)
               ->  Index Scan using rdtidx on table2  (cost=0.00..8.85 rows=30 width=4) (actual time=0.010..0.064 rows=31 loops=1)
                     Index Cond: ((table2.dt >= '2008-08-01 00:00:00'::timestamp without time zone) AND (table2.dt <= '2008-08-20 00:00:00'::timestamp without time zone))
         ->  Index Scan using rndtidx on new_table1  (cost=0.00..13685.26 rows=8159 width=24) (actual time=0.648..117.415 rows=165180 loops=31)
               Index Cond: ((new_table1.nk = table3.k) AND (new_table1.dk = table2.k))
 Total runtime: 8224.386 ms
(10 rows)

Time: 8225.308 ms

We have set join_collapse_limit = 8, from_collapse_limit = 1.

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Regards
Gauri