BEGIN; BEGIN EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) select c_count, count(*) as custdist from ( select c_custkey, count(o_orderkey) from customer left outer join orders on c_custkey = o_custkey and o_comment not like '%special%requests%' group by c_custkey ) as c_orders (c_custkey, c_count) group by c_count order by custdist desc, c_count desc; QUERY PLAN --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sort (cost=928681.56..928682.06 rows=200 width=8) (actual time=82869.976..82869.980 rows=45 loops=1) Sort Key: (count(*)), (count(orders.o_orderkey)) Sort Method: quicksort Memory: 27kB Buffers: shared hit=291588 -> HashAggregate (cost=928671.91..928673.91 rows=200 width=8) (actual time=82869.861..82869.873 rows=45 loops=1) Buffers: shared hit=291585 -> HashAggregate (cost=891171.91..906171.91 rows=1500000 width=8) (actual time=81725.581..82513.047 rows=1500000 loops=1) Buffers: shared hit=291585 -> Hash Right Join (cost=69028.00..815954.35 rows=15043513 width=8) (actual time=2463.893..60197.652 rows=15352549 loops=1) Hash Cond: (orders.o_custkey = customer.c_custkey) Buffers: shared hit=291585 -> Seq Scan on orders (cost=0.00..446056.09 rows=15043513 width=8) (actual time=0.051..18727.300 rows=14852530 loops=1) Filter: ((o_comment)::text !~~ '%special%requests%'::text) Rows Removed by Filter: 162470 Buffers: shared hit=256307 -> Hash (cost=50278.00..50278.00 rows=1500000 width=4) (actual time=2461.577..2461.577 rows=1500000 loops=1) Buckets: 262144 Batches: 1 Memory Usage: 52735kB Buffers: shared hit=35278 -> Seq Scan on customer (cost=0.00..50278.00 rows=1500000 width=4) (actual time=0.018..1670.227 rows=1500000 loops=1) Buffers: shared hit=35278 Total runtime: 82900.053 ms (21 rows) COMMIT; COMMIT