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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 02:09:53 -0700
From: "s d" <s.d.sauron@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Beginner Question
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Hi,
I am trying to figure out how to debug a performance problem / use psql explain.
The table in question is:
# \d word_association;
           Table "public.word_association"
 Column |          Type          |     Modifiers
--------+------------------------+--------------------
 word1  | character varying(128) | not null
 word2  | character varying(128) | not null
 count  | integer                | not null default 0
Indexes:
    "word1_word2_comb_unique" unique, btree (word1, word2)
    "word1_hash_index" hash (word1)
    "word2_hash_index" hash (word2)
    "word_association_count_index" btree (count)
    "word_association_index1_1" btree (word1)
    "word_association_index2_1" btree (word2)

It has multiple indices since i wanted to see which one the planner choses.


# explain select * FROM word_association WHERE (word1 = 'bdss' OR
word2 = 'bdss')  AND count >= 10;
                                           QUERY PLAN
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Bitmap Heap Scan on word_association  (cost=11.53..1192.09 rows=155 width=22)
   Recheck Cond: (((word1)::text = 'bdss'::text) OR ((word2)::text =
'bdss'::text))
   Filter: (count >= 10)
   ->  BitmapOr  (cost=11.53..11.53 rows=364 width=0)
         ->  Bitmap Index Scan on word_association_index1_1
(cost=0.00..5.79 rows=190 width=0)
               Index Cond: ((word1)::text = 'bdss'::text)
         ->  Bitmap Index Scan on word_association_index2_1
(cost=0.00..5.67 rows=174 width=0)
               Index Cond: ((word2)::text = 'bdss'::text)
(8 rows)

The questions:
1. i can undestand where the cost=11.53 came from but where did the
1192.09 come form? The values are in milli right ?
2. the query takes  in reality much longer than 1 second.

In short, it feels like something is very wrong here (i tried vacuum
analyze and it didn't do much diff).
any ideas ?