Thanks for the tip! I will update my process and monitor it. On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 7:41 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Justin Pryzby <pry...@telsasoft.com> writes: > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 03:28:43PM +0530, Mayank Kandari wrote: > >> SELECT event_id FROM event WHERE (event_sec > time.seconds) OR > >> ((event_sec=time.seconds) AND (event_usec>=time.useconds) ORDER BY > >> event_sec, event_usec LIMIT 1 > > > I think it'd be better if the column was a float storing the fractional > number > > of seconds. Currently, it may be hard for the planner to estimate > rowcounts if > > the conditions are not independent. I don't know if it's related to this > > problem, though. > > Also, even if you can't change the data representation, there's a more > idiomatic way to do that in SQL: use a row comparison. > > SELECT ... > WHERE row(event_sec, event_usec) >= row(time.seconds, time.useconds) ... > > I doubt this is notably more execution-efficient, but if you're getting a > bad rowcount estimate it should help with that. It's easier to read too. > > regards, tom lane > -- regards Mayank Kandari