En un mensaje anterior, Tom Lane escribió:
> Fernando Schapachnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Now, combined (sorry for the convoluted query, it is build
> > automatically by an app).
> 
> > EXPLAIN SELECT DISTINCT p.id
> > FROM partes_tecnicos p,
> > rel_usr_sector_parte_tecnico r, active_users u
> > WHERE ((r.id_parte_tecnico=p.id AND r.id_usr=u.id AND
> > u.login='xxx' AND r.id_sector=p.id_sector_actual AND 
> > p.id_cola_por_ambito=1)
> > OR p.id_cola_por_ambito=1)
> > AND p.id_situacion!=6;
> 
> Is this query really what you want to do?  Because the OR overrides all
> the join conditions, meaning that rows having p.id_cola_por_ambito=1
> AND p.id_situacion!=6 must produce Cartesian products against every
> row in each of the other tables.
> 
> I think your SQL-building app is broken.

Yes, yes, we found this while working on improving the query. I just 
wanted to point out that the optimizer was doing a sequential scan 
in a situation it could unfould de active_users definition, add the 
login='xxx' clause, and use the index on the users table.

Thanks.

Fernando.

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