Thanks Pavel, Setting enable_hashagg to off didn't resolve the issue. Please find the explain as well as query results after "set enable_hashagg=off;"
mtesfaye@[local](test_db)=# EXPLAIN SELECT DISTINCT(A.*) test_db-# FROM table1_t A LEFT JOIN table2_v B test_db-# ON A.pnr_id=B.pnr_id test_db-# WHERE A.pnr_id IN(1801,2056) AND B.departure_date_time>=DATE('2012-09-26') test_db-# ORDER BY pnr_id ASC,nam_id ASC; +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | QUERY PLAN | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Unique (cost=1354.62..1354.66 rows=4 width=13) | | -> Sort (cost=1354.62..1354.63 rows=4 width=13) | | Sort Key: a.pnr_id, a.nam_id, a.pty_num | | -> Merge Join (cost=1084.06..1354.58 rows=4 width=13) | | Merge Cond: (table2_t.pnr_id = a.pnr_id) | | -> Unique (cost=1084.06..1198.67 rows=11461 width=16) | | -> Sort (cost=1084.06..1112.72 rows=11461 width=16) | | Sort Key: table2_t.pnr_id, table2_t.itn_id, table2_t.departure_date_time | | -> Seq Scan on table2_t (cost=0.00..311.34 rows=11461 width=16) | | Filter: (departure_date_time >= '2012-09-26'::date) | | -> Index Scan using table1_t_pnr_id_idx1 on table1_t a (cost=0.00..12.60 rows=4 width=13) | | Index Cond: (pnr_id = ANY ('{1801,2056}'::integer[])) | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ (12 rows) Time: 5.889 ms mtesfaye@[local](test_db)=# show enable_hashagg; +----------------+ | enable_hashagg | +----------------+ | on | +----------------+ (1 row) Time: 0.136 ms mtesfaye@[local](test_db)=# set enable_hashagg=off; SET Time: 0.203 ms mtesfaye@[local](test_db)=# show enable_hashagg; +----------------+ | enable_hashagg | +----------------+ | off | +----------------+ (1 row) Time: 0.131 ms mtesfaye@[local](test_db)=# SELECT DISTINCT(A.*) test_db-# FROM table1_t A LEFT JOIN table2_v B test_db-# ON A.pnr_id=B.pnr_id test_db-# WHERE A.pnr_id IN(1801,2056) AND B.departure_date_time>=DATE('2012-09-26') test_db-# ORDER BY pnr_id ASC,nam_id ASC; +--------+--------+---------+ | pnr_id | nam_id | pty_num | +--------+--------+---------+ | 1801 | 3359 | 1 | | 1801 | 3360 | 1 | | 1801 | 3361 | 1 | | 1801 | 3362 | 1 | +--------+--------+---------+ (4 rows) Time: 8.452 ms On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello > > this situation is possible, when optimizer use HashAgg where should not > use it. > > Please, try to disable HashAgg - set enable_hashagg to off; > > please, send EXPLAIN result > > Regards > > Pavel Stehule > > 2012/9/26 <radovan.jablonov...@replicon.com>: > > The following bug has been logged on the website: > > > > Bug reference: 7571 > > Logged by: Radovan Jablonovsky > > Email address: radovan.jablonov...@replicon.com > > PostgreSQL version: 9.1.5 > > Operating system: CentOs 5.8 Linux 2.6.18-308.el5 x86_64 > > Description: > > > > During checking our company database size we used query, which was not > the > > best to find out the tables/db size but should do the job. The query was > > tested on server with 32GB of RAM, 2 CPU with 4 cores and it was running > > alone without other activity. It consumed almost all RAM forced server to > > use swap and after 1hour it was still running. The simplified version of > > query used 20% of memory and finished after 1hour 8min. > > > > The size of pg_class is 3mil rows/objects and pg_namespace has 3000 > > rows/schemata. > > > > query: > > SELECT > > schema_name, > > sum(table_size) > > FROM > > (SELECT > > pg_catalog.pg_namespace.nspname as schema_name, > > pg_relation_size(pg_catalog.pg_class.oid) as table_size, > > sum(pg_relation_size(pg_catalog.pg_class.oid)) over () as > database_size > > FROM pg_catalog.pg_class > > JOIN pg_catalog.pg_namespace > > ON relnamespace = pg_catalog.pg_namespace.oid > > ) t > > GROUP BY schema_name, database_size; > > > > > > top - 10:50:44 up 20 days, 19:00, 1 user, load average: 1.15, 1.10, > 0.84 > > Tasks: 239 total, 3 running, 236 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > > Cpu(s): 15.1%us, 1.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 83.0%id, 0.5%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, > > 0.0%st > > Mem: 32946260k total, 32599908k used, 346352k free, 141924k buffers > > Swap: 55043952k total, 85216k used, 54958736k free, 14036516k cached > > > > Info from top: > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > > 2016 postgres 25 0 22.8g 17g 3.2g R 96.1 56.0 19:17.01 postgres: > > postgres db 10.0.1.10(49928) SELECT > > > > Simplified version of query uses pg_tables. It has 0.5mil rows/tables. > > Simplified version of query: > > SELECT > > schemaname, > > sum(pg_relation_size(schemaname || '.' || tablename))::bigint > > FROM pg_tables > > GROUP BY schemaname; > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) > > To make changes to your subscription: > > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs >