Kevin Brown wrote:
I'll just start by warning that I'm new-ish to postgresql.

I'm running 8.1 installed from source on a Debian Sarge server. I have a simple query that I believe I've placed the indexes correctly for, and I still end up with a seq scan. It makes sense, kinda, but it should be able to use the index to gather the right values. I do have a production set of data inserted into the tables, so this is running realistically:

dli=# explain analyze SELECT ordered_products.product_id
dli-# FROM to_ship, ordered_products
dli-# WHERE to_ship.ordered_product_id = ordered_products.id AND
dli-# ordered_products.paid = TRUE AND
dli-# ordered_products.suspended_sub = FALSE;

You scan 600000 rows from to_ship to get about 25000 - so some way to cut this down would help.

Try out an explicit INNER JOIN which includes the filter info for paid and suspended_sub in the join condition (you may need indexes on each of id, paid and suspended_sub, so that the 8.1 optimizer can use a bitmap scan):


SELECT ordered_products.product_id
FROM to_ship INNER JOIN ordered_products
ON (to_ship.ordered_product_id = ordered_products.id
AND ordered_products.paid = TRUE AND ordered_products.suspended_sub = FALSE);


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