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From: Uros <uros@sir-mag.com>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Optimizing query
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:25:46 +0100
Message-ID: <1121228637937.20031119132546@sir-mag.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FBB60BE.4010407@myrealbox.com>
References: <81222392078.20031119114141@sir-mag.com>
	<3FBB60BE.4010407@myrealbox.com>

Hello Shridhar,

I use Matthew's solution and it works. Query takes only half a second. I
didn't know that i can index function to.

Thanks

Uros

Wednesday, November 19, 2003, 1:23:26 PM, you wrote:

SD> Uros wrote:

>> Hello!
>> 
>> I have some trouble getting good results from my query.
>> 
>> here is structure
>> 
>> stat_views
>> id        | integer
>> id_zone   | integer
>> created   | timestamp
>> 
>> 
>> I have btree index on created and also id and there is  1633832 records in
>> that table
>> 
>> First of all I have to manualy set seq_scan to OFF because I always get
>> seq_scan. When i set it to off my explain show:
>> 
>> explain SELECT count(*) as views FROM stat_views WHERE id = 12;
>>                                              QUERY PLAN
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>  Aggregate  (cost=122734.86..122734.86 rows=1 width=0)
>>    ->  Index Scan using stat_views_id_idx on stat_views 
>> (cost=0.00..122632.60 rows=40904 width=0)
>>          Index Cond: (id = 12)
>> 
>> But what I need is to count views for some day, so I use
>> 
>> explain SELECT count(*) as views FROM stat_views WHERE date_part('day', created) = 18;
>> 
>>                                      QUERY PLAN
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>  Aggregate  (cost=100101618.08..100101618.08 rows=1 width=0)
>>    ->  Seq Scan on stat_views  (cost=100000000.00..100101565.62 rows=20984 width=0)
>>          Filter: (date_part('day'::text, created) = 18::double precision)
>> 
>> 
>> How can I make this to use index and speed the query. Now it takes about 12
>> seconds.

SD> Can you post explain analyze for the same?

SD>   Shridhar









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