On 8/22/24 5:06 PM, Rui DeSousa wrote:
>
>> On Aug 22, 2024, at 5:44 PM, Sbob <sbob@quadratum-braccas.com> wrote:
>>
>> All;
>>
>> I am running a select from a partitioned table. The table (and all the partitions) have an index on contract_date
likethis:
>> CREATE INDEX on part_tab (contract_date) where contract_date > '2022-01-01'::date
>>
>> The table (including all partitions) has 32million rows
>> The db server is an aurora postgresql instance with 128GB of ram and 16 vcpu's
>>
>> The shared buffers is set to 90GB and effective_cache_size is also 90GB
>> I set default_statistics_target to 1000 and ram a vacuum analyze on the table
>>
>> I am selecting a number of columns and specifying this where clause:
>>
>> WHERE (
>> (contract_date IS NULL)
>> OR
>> (contract_date > '2022-01-01'::date)
>> )
>>
>> This takes 15 seconds to run and an explain says it's doing a table scan on all partitions (the query is not
specifyingthe partition key)
>> If I change the where clause to look like this:
>>
>> WHERE (
>> (contract_date > '2022-01-01'::date)
>> )
>>
>> Then it performs index scans on all the partitions and runs in about 600ms
>>
>> If i leave the where clause off entirely it performs table scans of the partitions and takes approx 18 seconds to
run
>>
>> I am trying to get the performance to less than 2sec,
>> I have tried adding indexes on the table and all partitions like this:
>> CREATE INDEX ON table (contract_date NULLS FIRST) ;
>> but the performance with the full where clause is the same:
>>
>> WHERE (
>> (contract_date IS NULL)
>> OR
>> (contract_date > '2022-01-01'::date)
>> )
>>
>> runs in 15 seconds and scans all partitions
>>
>> I also tried indexes i=on the table and all partitions like this:
>> CREATE INDEX ON table (contract_date) WHERE contract_date IS NULL;
>>
>> but I get the same result, table scans on all partitions and it runs in 15 seconds
>>
>> Any help or advice ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>
> What is contract_date and when will it be null?
it's a date data type and it allows NULL's not sure why, this is a
client's system
