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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Fabrício dos Anjos Silva <fabricio.silva@linkcom.com.br>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Wrong index choice
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 17:39:54 -0400
Message-ID: <6006.1286141994@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimKtC1PLdyK6ToRHG-5GA_qmULtMvYQeFYpgtL+@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTikvrMuHC=+AqBEBd0gW-ahiLQ2c-U2gdW9KuWse@mail.gmail.com>
	<AANLkTimKtC1PLdyK6ToRHG-5GA_qmULtMvYQeFYpgtL+@mail.gmail.com>

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fabr=EDcio_dos_Anjos_Silva?= <fabricio.silva@linkcom.com.br> writes:
> explain analyze select max(cnpj) from empresa where dtcriacao >=
> current_date-5;
>                                                                       QUERY
> PLAN
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Result  (cost=32.24..32.24 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=5223.937..5223.938
> rows=1 loops=1)
>    InitPlan 1 (returns $0)
>      ->  Limit  (cost=0.00..32.24 rows=1 width=15) (actual
> time=5223.921..5223.922 rows=1 loops=1)
>            ->  Index Scan Backward using idx_cnpj on empresa
> (cost=0.00..65925.02 rows=2045 width=15) (actual time=5223.913..5223.913
> rows=1 loops=1)
>                  Index Cond: ((cnpj)::text IS NOT NULL)
>                  Filter: (dtcriacao >= (('now'::text)::date - 5))
>  Total runtime: 5224.037 ms
> (7 rows)

BTW, a large part of the reason that it's switching to this plan type
too soon is that you've got random_page_cost set really small:

> seq_page_cost = 0.01
> random_page_cost = 0.01

I think you need to back those off by an order of magnitude or so.

			regards, tom lane



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