Re: [PERFORM] Performance problems testing with Spamassassin 3.1.0

2005-08-01 Thread Michael Parker
Jim C. Nasby wrote: I'm not sure who's responsible for DBI::Pg (Josh?), but would it make sense to add better support for bytea to DBI::Pg? ISTM there should be a better way of doing this than adding gobs of \'s. It has support for binding a bytea parameter, but in this case we're trying to

[PERFORM] Planner incorrectly choosing seq scan over index scan

2005-08-01 Thread Meetesh Karia
Hi all, We're using 8.0.3 and we're seeing a problem where the planner is choosing a seq scan and hash join over an index scan. If I set enable_hashjoin to off, then I get the plan I'm expecting and the query runs a lot faster. I've also tried lowering the random page cost (even to 1) but the

Re: [PERFORM] Planner incorrectly choosing seq scan over index scan

2005-08-01 Thread Tobias Brox
[Meetesh Karia - Tue at 12:19:27AM +0200] We're using 8.0.3 and we're seeing a problem where the planner is choosing a seq scan and hash join over an index scan. If I set enable_hashjoin to off, then I get the plan I'm expecting and the query runs a lot faster. I've also tried lowering the

Re: [PERFORM] Planner incorrectly choosing seq scan over index scan

2005-08-01 Thread John Arbash Meinel
Meetesh Karia wrote: Hi all, We're using 8.0.3 and we're seeing a problem where the planner is choosing a seq scan and hash join over an index scan. If I set enable_hashjoin to off, then I get the plan I'm expecting and the query runs a lot faster. I've also tried lowering the random page

Re: [PERFORM] Planner incorrectly choosing seq scan over index scan

2005-08-01 Thread Meetesh Karia
Are you referring to the statistics gathering target for ANALYZE? Based on your email, I just tried the following and then re-ran the explain analyze but got the same incorrect plan: alter table candidates617004 alter column sourceId set statistics 1000, alter column targetId set statistics

Re: [PERFORM] Planner incorrectly choosing seq scan over index scan

2005-08-01 Thread Meetesh Karia
Thanks John. I've answered your questions below: Has lte_user and candidates617004 been recently ANALYZEd? All estimates,except for the expected number of rows from lte_user seem to be okay. I ANALYZEd both tables just before putting together my first email. And, unfortunately, modifying the

Re: [PERFORM] Planner incorrectly choosing seq scan over index scan

2005-08-01 Thread Tom Lane
Meetesh Karia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sure. The lte_user table is just a collection of users. user_id is assigned= uniquely using a sequence. During some processing, we create a candidates= table (candidates617004 in our case). This table is usually a temp table.= sourceid is a user_id (in