From: Ragnar Hafstað <gnari@simnet.is>
To: Marc McIntyre <mmcintyre@squiz.net>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Slow Query
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:22:33 +0000
Message-ID: <1121340153.31360.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42D5AC8A.9000003@squiz.net>
References: <42D5AC8A.9000003@squiz.net>
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 10:06 +1000, Marc McIntyre wrote:
> I'm having a problem with a query that performs a sequential scan on a
> table when it should be performing an index scan. The interesting thing
> is, when we dumped the database on another server, it performed an index
> scan on that server.
...
> The EXPLAIN ANALYZE from the system performing an sequential scan:
>
> QUERY PLAN
> Sort (cost=30079.79..30079.89 rows=42 width=113) (actual time=39889.989..39890.346 rows=260 loops=1)
...
> The EXPLAIN ANALYZE from the system performing an index scan scan:
> Sort (cost=16873.64..16873.74 rows=40 width=113) (actual time=2169.905..2169.912 rows=13 loops=1)
looks like the first query is returning 260 rows,
but the second one 13
this may not be your problem, but are you sure you are using the same
query on the same data here ?
gnari
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