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From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Patrice Beliveau <pbeliveau@avior.ca>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Difference in query plan
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:14:17 +0000
Message-ID: <491DB1E9.6030500@archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <491DB061.4020002@avior.ca>
References: <491DB061.4020002@avior.ca>

Patrice Beliveau wrote:
> Thanks,
> 
> I'm already doing a vacuum full every night on all database, but the
> REINDEX fix it and now it's working fine

Are you sure it was the REINDEX? The plan was using a sequential scan.

> But this raise a question
> 
> 1) This table is cleared every night and recomputed, does this mean that
> I should REINDEX every night also

Looks like you should. Or drop the indexes, load the data, re-create the
indexes, that can be quicker.

> 2) Why this thing didn't happen in the other schema

Have you re-loaded schema1 more often? It might even be the particular
order that rows are loaded - a btree can become "unbalanced" sometimes.

-- 
  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd



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