I am working on queries on a large table in Postgres 9.3.9. It is a spatial dataset and it is spatially indexed. Say, I have need to find 3 types of objects: A, B and C. The criteria is that B and C are both within certain distance of A, say 500 meters.
My query is like this:
select
school.osm_id as school_osm_id,
school.name as school_name,
school.way as school_way,
restaurant.osm_id as restaurant_osm_id,
restaurant.name as restaurant_name,
restaurant.way as restaurant_way,
bar.osm_id as bar_osm_id,
bar.name as bar_name,
bar.way as bar_way
from (
select osm_id, name, amenity, way, way_geo
from planet_osm_point
where amenity = 'school') as school,
(select osm_id, name, amenity, way, way_geo
from planet_osm_point
where amenity = 'restaurant') as restaurant,
(select osm_id, name, amenity, way, way_geo
from planet_osm_point
where amenity = 'bar') as bar
where ST_DWithin(school.way_geo, restaurant.way_geo, 500, false)
and ST_DWithin(school.way_geo, bar.way_geo, 500, false);
This query gives me what I want, but it takes really long time, like 13 seconds to execute. I'm wondering if there is another way to write the query and make it more efficient.
Query plan:
Nested Loop (cost=74.43..28618.65 rows=1 width=177) (actual time=33.513..11235.212 rows=10591 loops=1)
Buffers: shared hit=530967 read=8733
-> Nested Loop (cost=46.52..28586.46 rows=1 width=174) (actual time=31.998..9595.212 rows=4235 loops=1)
Buffers: shared hit=389863 read=8707
-> Bitmap Heap Scan on planet_osm_point (cost=18.61..2897.83 rows=798 width=115) (actual time=7.862..150.607 rows=8811 loops=1)
Recheck Cond: (amenity = 'school'::text)
Buffers: shared hit=859 read=5204
-> Bitmap Index Scan on idx_planet_osm_point_amenity (cost=0.00..18.41 rows=798 width=0) (actual time=5.416..5.416 rows=8811 loops=1)
Index Cond: (amenity = 'school'::text)
Buffers: shared hit=3 read=24
-> Bitmap Heap Scan on planet_osm_point planet_osm_point_1 (cost=27.91..32.18 rows=1 width=115) (actual time=1.064..1.069 rows=0 loops=8811)
Recheck Cond: ((way_geo && _st_expand(planet_osm_point.way_geo, 500::double precision)) AND (amenity = 'restaurant'::text))
Filter: ((planet_osm_point.way_geo && _st_expand(way_geo, 500::double precision)) AND _st_dwithin(planet_osm_point.way_geo, way_geo, 500::double precision, false))
Rows Removed by Filter: 0
Buffers: shared hit=389004 read=3503
-> BitmapAnd (cost=27.91..27.91 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=1.058..1.058 rows=0 loops=8811)
Buffers: shared hit=384528 read=2841
-> Bitmap Index Scan on idx_planet_osm_point_waygeo (cost=0.00..9.05 rows=137 width=0) (actual time=0.193..0.193 rows=64 loops=8811)
Index Cond: (way_geo && _st_expand(planet_osm_point.way_geo, 500::double precision))
Buffers: shared hit=146631 read=2841
-> Bitmap Index Scan on idx_planet_osm_point_amenity (cost=0.00..18.41 rows=798 width=0) (actual time=0.843..0.843 rows=6291 loops=8811)
Index Cond: (amenity = 'restaurant'::text)
Buffers: shared hit=237897
-> Bitmap Heap Scan on planet_osm_point planet_osm_point_2 (cost=27.91..32.18 rows=1 width=115) (actual time=0.375..0.383 rows=3 loops=4235)
Recheck Cond: ((way_geo && _st_expand(planet_osm_point.way_geo, 500::double precision)) AND (amenity = 'bar'::text))
Filter: ((planet_osm_point.way_geo && _st_expand(way_geo, 500::double precision)) AND _st_dwithin(planet_osm_point.way_geo, way_geo, 500::double precision, false))
Rows Removed by Filter: 1
Buffers: shared hit=141104 read=26
-> BitmapAnd (cost=27.91..27.91 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=0.368..0.368 rows=0 loops=4235)
Buffers: shared hit=127019
-> Bitmap Index Scan on idx_planet_osm_point_waygeo (cost=0.00..9.05 rows=137 width=0) (actual time=0.252..0.252 rows=363 loops=4235)
Index Cond: (way_geo && _st_expand(planet_osm_point.way_geo, 500::double precision))
Buffers: shared hit=101609
-> Bitmap Index Scan on idx_planet_osm_point_amenity (cost=0.00..18.41 rows=798 width=0) (actual time=0.104..0.104 rows=779 loops=4235)
Index Cond: (amenity = 'bar'::text)
Buffers: shared hit=25410
Total runtime: 11238.605 ms
I'm only using one table at the moment with 1,372,711 rows. It has 73 columns:
Column | Type | Modifiers
--------------------+----------------------+---------------------------
osm_id | bigint |
access | text |
addr:housename | text |
addr:housenumber | text |
addr:interpolation | text |
admin_level | text |
aerialway | text |
aeroway | text |
amenity | text |
area | text |
barrier | text |
bicycle | text |
brand | text |
bridge | text |
boundary | text |
building | text |
capital | text |
construction | text |
covered | text |
culvert | text |
cutting | text |
denomination | text |
disused | text |
ele | text |
embankment | text |
foot | text |
generator:source | text |
harbour | text |
highway | text |
historic | text |
horse | text |
intermittent | text |
junction | text |
landuse | text |
layer | text |
leisure | text |
lock | text |
man_made | text |
military | text |
motorcar | text |
name | text |
natural | text |
office | text |
oneway | text |
operator | text |
place | text |
poi | text |
population | text |
power | text |
power_source | text |
public_transport | text |
railway | text |
ref | text |
religion | text |
route | text |
service | text |
shop | text |
sport | text |
surface | text |
toll | text |
tourism | text |
tower:type | text |
tunnel | text |
water | text |
waterway | text |
wetland | text |
width | text |
wood | text |
z_order | integer |
tags | hstore |
way | geometry(Point,4326) |
way_geo | geography |
gid | integer | not null default nextval('...
Indexes:
"planet_osm_point_pkey1" PRIMARY KEY, btree (gid)
"idx_planet_osm_point_amenity" btree (amenity)
"idx_planet_osm_point_waygeo" gist (way_geo)
"planet_osm_point_index" gist (way)
"planet_osm_point_pkey" btree (osm_id)
There are 8811, 6291, 779 rows in amenity school, restaurant and bar respectively.