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From AI Rumman
Subject Re: Why does index not use for CTE query?
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In response to Re: Why does index not use for CTE query?  (Robins Tharakan <robins.tharakan@comodo.com>)
Responses Re: Why does index not use for CTE query?  (Robins Tharakan <robins.tharakan@comodo.com>)
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I know that. I wrote here only a sample. I have to have UNION ALL on the CTE expression for severral times where UNION ALL and a CONCAT SELECT will be changed.
That's why I can't include the where condition in the CTE expression.

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Robins Tharakan <robins.tharakan@comodo.com> wrote:
Hi,

The CTE is a distinct query and you're trying to do a SELECT * FROM t1. Which is quite expected to do a table scan.

If you do a WHERE i=2 *within the CTE*, you should start seeing usage of the index where you're expecting to.

--
Robins Tharakan


On 12/27/2011 02:15 PM, AI Rumman wrote:
Why does index not use for CTE query?
I am using Postgresql 9.1

select version();
                                                version
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 PostgreSQL 9.1.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.1.2
20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-50), 32-bit
(1 row)


\d t1
      Table "public.t1"
 Column |  Type   | Modifiers
--------+---------+-----------
 i      | integer |
 nam    | text    |
Indexes:
"t1_i_idx" btree (i)


analyze t1;
explain select * from t1 where  i=2;
                    QUERY PLAN
--------------------------------------------------
 Seq Scan on t1  (cost=0.00..1.09 rows=4 width=9)
   Filter: (i = 2)
(2 rows)

set enable_seqscan = off;

explain select * from t1 where  i=2;
                             QUERY PLAN
--------------------------------------------------------------------
 Index Scan using t1_i_idx on t1  (cost=0.00..12.32 rows=4 width=9)
   Index Cond: (i = 2)
(2 rows)


explain
with q as (select * from t1)
select * from q where  i=2;

select * from q where  i=2;
                                  QUERY PLAN
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 CTE Scan on q  (cost=10000000001.07..10000000001.23 rows=1 width=36)
   Filter: (i = 2)
   CTE q
     ->  Seq Scan on t1  (cost=10000000000.00..10000000001.07 rows=7
width=9)
(4 rows)

Index is not using here.
Could you tell me why?



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