It did indeed work as expected. Took the query down from over 18 hours to 20 minutes, so a huge win!
Paul On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 11:34 PM David G. Johnston < david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, December 2, 2021, Paul van der Linden < > paul.doskabou...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> when switching to postgres 14 (from 11) I'm having some slow queries >> because of inlining of CTE's. >> I know I can get the same result as with PG11 when adding MATERIALIZED to >> the cte, but the same application also needs to be able to run on older >> postgres versions, so that is a no-go. >> Is there any other way that I can have materialized cte's in PG14 while >> still be compatible with older PG versions? >> Much appreciated, >> > > The usual anti-inlining hack is to add an “offset 0” to the query. > Haven’t tried it in 14 myself though. > > David J. > >