Hello Tom,

Could you elaborate on this? I'm trying to learn the explain plans of 
postgresql and i would like to know if we're looking at the same clue's.

To me, i see a mismatch between the optimizer and the actual records retrieved 
in the fast SQL as well, so plan instability is a realistic scenario. For the 
slow query, I thought to see a problem in the part below the ' recursive union' 
:
the HASH join is more expensive that the nested loop. ( hints are not yet 
implemented in Postgresql , aren't they? )

So the SQL text is:

explain analyze 
SELECT 
 note_sets."id" AS t0_r0, 
 ...
 notes."updated_by" AS t2_r10 
FROM 
 note_sets  
LEFT OUTER JOIN note_set_sources ON note_set_sources.id = 
note_sets.note_set_source_id  
LEFT OUTER JOIN notes ON notes.note_set_id = note_sets.id AND 
notes."status" = E'A' 
WHERE 
 (note_sets.id IN (WITH RECURSIVE parent_noteset as 
 (SELECT id FROM note_sets where id = 8304085 
   UNION 
  SELECT note_sets.id FROM 
         parent_noteset parent_noteset, 
         note_sets note_sets 
  WHERE note_sets.parent_id = parent_noteset.id) SELECT id FROM parent_noteset))

IMHO, the plan goes wrong at the part 

SELECT note_sets.id FROM 
         parent_noteset parent_noteset, 
         note_sets note_sets 
  WHERE note_sets.parent_id = parent_noteset.id)

Do you agree?



> From: t...@sss.pgh.pa.us
> To: p...@fastcrypt.com
> CC: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [PERFORM] performance regression with 9.2
> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:43:53 -0500
> 
> Dave Cramer <p...@fastcrypt.com> writes:
> > This query is a couple orders of magnitude slower the first result is
> > 9.2.1, the second 9.1
> 
> Hm, the planner's evidently doing the wrong thing inside the recursive
> union, but not obvious why.  Can you extract a self-contained test case?
> 
>                       regards, tom lane
> 
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