On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 17:22, Luis Alberto Amigo Navarro wrote: > I can't improve performance on this query:
You could try rewriting the IN's into = joins or even use explicit INNER JOIN syntax to force certain plans with a select inside another and depending on value of partsupp.partkey it is really hard for optimiser to do anything else than to perform the query for each row. But it may help to rewrite SELECT partsupp.suppkey FROM partsupp WHERE partsupp.partkey IN ( SELECT part.partkey FROM part WHERE part.name like 'forest%' ) AND partsupp.availqty>( SELECT 0.5*(sum(lineitem.quantity)::FLOAT) FROM lineitem WHERE lineitem.partkey=partsupp.partkey AND lineitem.suppkey=partsupp.partkey AND lineitem.shipdate>=('1994-01-01')::DATE AND lineitem.shipdate<(('1994-01-01')::DATE+('1 year')::INTERVAL)::DATE ) ) into SELECT partsupp.suppkey FROM partsupp, (SELECT part.partkey as partkey FROM part WHERE part.name like 'forest%' ) fp, (SELECT 0.5*(sum(lineitem.quantity)::FLOAT) as halfsum, partkey FROM lineitem WHERE lineitem.partkey=partsupp.partkey AND lineitem.suppkey=partsupp.partkey AND lineitem.shipdate>=('1994-01-01')::DATE AND lineitem.shipdate<(('1994-01-01')::DATE+('1 year')::INTERVAL)::DATE ) li WHERE partsupp.partkey = fp.partkey AND partsupp.partkey = li.partkey AND partsupp.availqty > halfsum if "lineitem" is significantly smaller than "partsupp" But you really should tell us more, like how many lines does lineitem and other tables have, ---------- Hannu ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org