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#postgresql takes a bite of 30,000 rows from your 50 million row table and calls it a day. That's 0.06% of your data deciding if your query will be fast or slow. boringsql.com/posts/postgr...

boringsql.comPostgreSQL Statistics: Why queries run slowSlow PostgreSQL queries? Stale statistics are often to blame. Learn how the query planner uses statistics to estimate row counts and how to fix them.

Radim @ boringSQL

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Or what about cases where there are no statistics at all? Like materialized CTEs, temporary tables, or computed expressions in WHERE clauses. The planner falls back to hardcoded constants. 0.5% selectivity for equality. 33% for ranges. Good luck.

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Andrew Atkinson

@andyatkinson.com

27 Feb

"0.5% selectivity for equality. 33% for ranges. Good luck." Could make a good snarky Postgres t-shirt to wear at Postgres conferences. 😂

Radim @ boringSQL

@boringsql.com

27 Feb

You just might be onto something 🤣 I've been looking for something for the back of the t-shirts and I think we have a strong candidate Equality: 0.5% Ranges: 33% May your indexes be with you