-- Join with scores/order-by/limit, small target list. -- Query Info (statistics from 100k dataset; larger datasets may have different values): -- - reputation > 100 selectivity on users.reputation: ~82% (active users are overrepresented at smaller sizes; likely lower for larger datasets) -- - 'error' selectivity on stackoverflow_posts.title: ~1% -- - 'question' selectivity on comments.text: ~7% SET paradedb.enable_join_custom_scan TO off; SELECT users.id, stackoverflow_posts.id, comments.id, pdb.score(users.id) + pdb.score(stackoverflow_posts.id) + pdb.score(comments.id) AS pdb_score FROM users JOIN stackoverflow_posts ON users.id = stackoverflow_posts.owner_user_id JOIN comments ON comments.post_id = stackoverflow_posts.id WHERE users.id @@@ pdb.all() AND users.reputation > 100 AND stackoverflow_posts.title ||| 'error' AND comments.text ||| 'question' ORDER BY pdb_score DESC LIMIT 1000; SET work_mem TO '4GB'; SET paradedb.enable_join_custom_scan TO on; SELECT users.id, stackoverflow_posts.id, comments.id, pdb.score(users.id) + pdb.score(stackoverflow_posts.id) + pdb.score(comments.id) AS pdb_score FROM users JOIN stackoverflow_posts ON users.id = stackoverflow_posts.owner_user_id JOIN comments ON comments.post_id = stackoverflow_posts.id WHERE users.id @@@ pdb.all() AND users.reputation > 100 AND stackoverflow_posts.title ||| 'error' AND comments.text ||| 'question' ORDER BY pdb_score DESC LIMIT 1000;