X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A17D8836 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 15:40:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 89701-04 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:40:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svctag-ckgvz71.mailserver.wazagua.com (unknown [209.34.245.244]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F6B2D877A for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 15:40:22 -0300 (ADT) Received: from jfradkin ([66.15.127.235]) by svctag-ckgvz71.mailserver.wazagua.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 1 Sep 2005 14:40:30 -0400 From: "Joel Fradkin" To: "'Merlin Moncure'" , "'Matthew Sackman'" Cc: Subject: Re: Massive performance issues Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 14:42:51 -0400 Message-ID: <003901c5af24$f5cd8ee0$797ba8c0@jfradkin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <6EE64EF3AB31D5448D0007DD34EEB3417DD25A@Herge.rcsinc.local> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Sep 2005 18:40:30.0406 (UTC) FILETIME=[A0F59660:01C5AF24] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.908 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.168, MSGID_DOLLARS=3.076] X-Spam-Level: ** X-Archive-Number: 200509/15 X-Sequence-Number: 14323 Any chance it's a vacuum thing? Or configuration (out of the box it needs adjusting)? Joel Fradkin -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Merlin Moncure Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 2:11 PM To: Matthew Sackman Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Massive performance issues > I'm having performance issues with a table consisting of 2,043,133 rows. > The > schema is: > locality_1 has 16650 distinct values and locality_2 has 1156 distinct > values. Just so you know I have a 2GHz p4 workstation with similar size (2M rows), several keys, and can find and fetch 2k rows based on 20k unique value key in about 60 ms. (.06 seconds). Merlin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match