Re: Query not using the indexes properly. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tim Uckun
Subject Re: Query not using the indexes properly.
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Msg-id 855e4dcf0910011919v69b8251fif9932b6c6f66716@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Query not using the indexes properly.  (Chris <dmagick@gmail.com>)
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> It probably thinks the id check is going to be better to limit the result
> set.
>
> How many records are there for id > 1935759 ?

About 40 million or so.

> vs
> How many records for company_id = 4 and source_model_name =
> 'CommissionedVisit' ?
>
> If this is a common query you could probably do a multi-column index on all
> 3 columns (id, company_id, source_model_name) - but if company_id and
> source_model_name have a low number of distinct values, then it's not going
> to help.


Both of those will indeed have a pretty low number of distinct values.

Looks like I need to figure out something else.

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