Re: [PERFORM] sequential scan on child partition tables

2009-10-18 Thread Anj Adu
The actual data returned is a tiny fraction of the total table volume. Is there a way to force an index scan on the partitions in a guaranteed manner without resorting to re-writing queries with the union all on partitions. Thank you Sriram On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > A

Re: [PERFORM] sequential scan on child partition tables

2009-10-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Anj Adu wrote: > This appears to be a bug in the optimizer with resepct to planning > queries involving child partitions. It is clear that "any" index is > being ignored even if the selectivity is high. I had to re-write the > same query by explicitly "union-all" '

[PERFORM] sequential scan on child partition tables

2009-10-17 Thread Anj Adu
Hi This query is doing a sequential scan on the child partitions even though indexes on all constrained columns are present The box is very lightly loaded (8 core 15K 6x300G Raid 10 disks) explain analyze select thedate,sent.theboxid_id,sub_box_id,box_num,sum(summcount) as event_count,'ACC'

Re: [PERFORM] sequential scan on child partition tables

2009-10-15 Thread Anj Adu
This appears to be a bug in the optimizer with resepct to planning queries involving child partitions. It is clear that "any" index is being ignored even if the selectivity is high. I had to re-write the same query by explicitly "union-all" ' ing the queries for individual partitions. On Wed, Oct

Re: [PERFORM] sequential scan on child partition tables

2009-10-14 Thread Tom Lane
Anj Adu writes: > This query is doing a sequential scan on the child partitions even > though indexes on all constrained columns are present It looks to me like it's doing exactly what it is supposed to, ie, indexscan on the partitions where it would help and seqscans on the partitions where it w

[PERFORM] sequential scan on child partition tables

2009-10-14 Thread Anj Adu
Hi This query is doing a sequential scan on the child partitions even though indexes on all constrained columns are present The box is very lightly loaded (8 core 15K 6x300G Raid 10 disks)  explain analyze  select thedate,sent.theboxid_id,sub_box_id,box_num,sum(summcount) as event_count,'ACC'