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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
Cc: soni de <soni.de@gmail.com>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah.rajesh@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Takes too long to fetch the data from database
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:45:36 -0400
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Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> writes:
> soni de wrote:
>> NOTICE:  QUERY PLAN:
>> Sort  (cost=17.13..17.13 rows=1 width=16) (actual time=619140.18..619140.29rows
>> =288 loops=1)
>> ->  Index Scan using lan_pkey on lan  (cost=0.00..17.12 rows=1 width=16)
>> (actual time=7564.44..619121.61 rows=288 loops=1)
>> 
>> Total runtime: 619140.76 msec

> OK - there is clearly something wrong here when you take 10 minutes to 
> fetch 288 rows from an index.

> I'm guessing you have a *lot* of dead rows in there.

Yeah.  The other small problem here is that EXPLAIN output hasn't looked
like that since PG 7.2 (unless Soni has just omitted the index-condition
lines).  I'd recommend updating to something modern.

			regards, tom lane



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