Hey all, first off, Postgres version 9.4.4 (also tested on 9.5 beta). I have been having a pretty hard time getting a view of mine to play nice with any other queries I need it for.
I have a few tables you'd need to know about to understand why i'm doing what i'm doing. First thing is we have a "contract_item", it can have either a product or a grouping of products (only one or the other, not both) on it, and a few extra attributes. The groupings are defined in a hierarchy, and they can have many of these groupings or products on a single "contract", but only unique records per product or grouping. Now when it comes down to finding what the extra attributes that are valid on a contract are for the specific product you're looking for, the most relevant is the product being on the contract directly. If the product doesn't exist, we choose the lowest level grouping that is defined on the contract that contains that product. The view I am having trouble with is able to push down it's where clause when the id's are directly specified like so: SELECT * FROM contract_product cp WHERE cp.contract_id = '16d6df05-d8a0-4ec9-ae39-f4d8e13da597' AND cp.product_id = '00c117d7-6451-4842-b17b-baa44baa375f'; But the where clause or join conditions are not pushed down in these cases (which is how I need to use the view): SELECT * FROM contract_product cp WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT 1 WHERE cp.contract_id = '16d6df05-d8a0-4ec9-ae39-f4d8e13da597' AND cp.product_id = '00c117d7-6451-4842-b17b-baa44baa375f' ); or SELECT * FROM contract_product cp INNER JOIN ( SELECT '16d6df05-d8a0-4ec9-ae39-f4d8e13da597'::uuid as contract_id, '00c117d7-6451-4842-b17b-baa44baa375f'::uuid as product_id ) p ON cp.contract_id = p.contract_id AND cp.product_id = p.product_id; The definition of the view i'm having trouble with: CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW contract_product AS SELECT DISTINCT ON (ci.contract_id, p.product_id) ci.contract_item_id, ci.contract_id, p.product_id, ci.uom_type_id, ci.rebate_direct_rate, ci.decimal_model, ci.rebate_deviated_value, ci.rebate_deviated_type FROM contract_item ci LEFT JOIN grouping_hierarchy gh ON gh.original_grouping_id = ci.grouping_id AND NOT (EXISTS ( SELECT 1 FROM contract_item cig WHERE cig.contract_id = ci.contract_id AND gh.grouping_id = cig.grouping_id AND cig.grouping_id <> ci.grouping_id) ) LEFT JOIN product_grouping pg ON pg.grouping_id = gh.grouping_id AND NOT (EXISTS ( SELECT 1 FROM contract_item cip WHERE cip.contract_id = ci.contract_id AND pg.product_id = cip.product_id) ) JOIN product p ON p.product_id = COALESCE(ci.product_id, pg.product_id) ORDER BY ci.contract_id, p.product_id, gh.level; That view references another view to make it easy to find the correct level in my hierarchy, so here is the definition for that: CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW grouping_hierarchy AS WITH RECURSIVE groupings_list(original_grouping_id, parent_grouping_id, grouping_id) AS ( SELECT pg.grouping_id AS original_grouping_id, pg.parent_grouping_id, pg.grouping_id, 0 AS level FROM grouping pg UNION ALL SELECT gl.original_grouping_id, cg.parent_grouping_id, cg.grouping_id, gl.level + 1 FROM groupings_list gl JOIN grouping cg ON cg.parent_grouping_id = gl.grouping_id WHERE cg.active_ind = true ) SELECT groupings_list.original_grouping_id, groupings_list.parent_grouping_id, groupings_list.grouping_id, groupings_list.level FROM groupings_list; And here are the query plans (in order) for those three queries: http://explain.depesz.com/s/YCee http://explain.depesz.com/s/1SE2 http://explain.depesz.com/s/ci7 Any help would be greatly appreciated on how to speed this up, or if i'm doing something Postgres just doesn't like and what an alternative method would be. Thanks, -Adam