On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:32 AM, <tv@fuzzy.cz> wrote:
>> Incredible! Setting enable_nestloop off temporarily for the run of this
>> script made it run in less than a minute (had been running in 10 or 11
>> minutes). I think you have found a solution for many of my slow running
>> scripts that use these same type of joins. Thanks again.
>> Julie
>
> Nice. Can you post EXPLAIN ANALYZE again, so that we can see why this plan
> was evaluated as as more expensive before disabling nested loops?
well the problem is obvious -- the planner is estimating ~ 250 loops,
when it in fact has to do ~ 60k. That's a two orders of magnitude
miss.
merlin
