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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:28:18 +0100
From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: Query only slow on first run
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 07:25:54PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> You could make an index on (question_id,status) (or a partial index on
>> question id, with status=1 as the filter), but I'm not sure how much it would
>> help you unless the questions table is extremely big. It doesn't appear to
>> be; in fact, it appears to be all in RAM, so that's not your bottleneck.
> Wouldn't help, because the accesses to "questions" are not the problem.

Yes, that was my point too. :-)

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