FQL LEFT OUTER JOIN gets 471 times slower if there's more than 1 criteria in the JOIN (8 Comments)

Issue report by Vincent L

Product

FileMaker Pro

Version

13.0v3

Operating system version

Mavericks 10.9.4

Description of the issue

Using ExecuteSQL against filemaker database, having more than 1 criteria in a LEFT OUTER JOIN absolutely kills performance (471 times slower) no matter how simple is it.

This takes 0,07s to perform

SELECT A.product_id FROM products A
LEFT OUTER JOIN competitors_prices B
ON A.product_id=B.product_id


This takes 33s to perform

SELECT A.product_id FROM products A
LEFT OUTER JOIN competitors_prices B
ON A.product_id=B.product_id AND 1=1

This takes 37s

SELECT A.product_id FROM products A
LEFT OUTER JOIN competitors_prices B
ON A.product_id=B.product_id AND B.matching=1 AND B.flux_id=1

Steps to reproduce the problem

Run the above queries

all details here

you may download my example file here

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kt8ykt8783se7qy/QueryTesting.zip

Expected result

The LEFT OUTER JOIN with more than 1 criteria, considering those added criteria are fully indexed or very simple, shouldn't be slower by such orders of magnitude.

Moreover Filemaker 13 SQL documentation doesn't warn about that performance loss.

Actual result

471 times slower.
yes slower can be accepted but not that much, especially as all added criteria are so simple.

Configuration information

FMPa 13v3 (also trie 12 same thing)
Mac OS X 10.9.4

Workaround

use only ONE criteria in LEFT OUTER JOIN, and move the criteria in the WHERE close like Tim (https://fmdev.filemaker.com/message/152179#152179) suggested.

However this complicates a lot the query, even more so if you need several cascading JOIN.
This produce a not really evadable code, and it's very difficult to create the query.