Tomasz Myrta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's much better now (10x faster), but I've just found this plan still > isn't as I want to have. I wish I could have index usage on both fields,
FWIW, I see this plan in 7.4 using your original test case: Nested Loop (cost=22.51..71.79 rows=1 width=56) -> Hash Join (cost=22.51..47.56 rows=5 width=48) Hash Cond: ("outer".groupid = "inner".groupid) -> Seq Scan on offsets o (cost=0.00..20.00 rows=1000 width=12) -> Hash (cost=22.50..22.50 rows=5 width=40) -> Seq Scan on groups g (cost=0.00..22.50 rows=5 width=40) Filter: ((name)::text = 'some_name'::text) -> Index Scan using events_pkey on events e (cost=0.00..4.83 rows=1 width=8) Index Cond: ((e.offset_id = "outer".offset_id) AND (e.event_date = ("outer".begindate + "outer".offset_value))) I believe the difficulty in 7.3 is because begindate and offset_value come from different relations, and specifically from different relations than the first index condition uses. This was fixed here: 2002-11-24 16:52 tgl * src/: backend/nodes/copyfuncs.c, backend/nodes/equalfuncs.c, backend/nodes/list.c, backend/nodes/outfuncs.c, backend/nodes/readfuncs.c, backend/optimizer/path/indxpath.c, backend/optimizer/path/joinpath.c, backend/optimizer/path/orindxpath.c, backend/optimizer/path/tidpath.c, backend/optimizer/plan/initsplan.c, backend/optimizer/util/pathnode.c, backend/optimizer/util/plancat.c, backend/optimizer/util/relnode.c, backend/optimizer/util/restrictinfo.c, include/nodes/nodes.h, include/nodes/pg_list.h, include/nodes/relation.h, include/optimizer/paths.h, include/optimizer/restrictinfo.h: Restructure planning of nestloop inner indexscans so that the set of usable joinclauses is determined accurately for each join. Formerly, the code only considered joinclauses that used all of the rels from the outer side of the join; thus for example FROM (a CROSS JOIN b) JOIN c ON (c.f1 = a.x AND c.f2 = b.y) could not exploit a two-column index on c(f1,f2), since neither of the qual clauses would be in the joininfo list it looked in. The new code does this correctly, and also is able to eliminate redundant clauses, thus fixing the problem noted 24-Oct-02 by Hans-Jürgen Schönig. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster