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From: Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>
To: Subramaniam C <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Query regarding EXPLAIN (ANALYZE,BUFFERS)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 20:37:34 +0200
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2017-09-21 12:52 GMT+02:00 Subramaniam C <[email protected]>:

> Hi
>
> I wanted to query top 20 rows by joining two tables, one table having
> around 1 lac rows and other table having 5 lac rows. Since I am using ORDER
> BY in the query so I created compound index with the columns being used in
> ORDER BY. Initially index size was  939 MB.
>
> Then I ran EXPLAIN(ANALYZE,BUFFERS) for this query which took around 20
> secs as it was not using the compound index for this query. So I drop this
> index and created again. The index size now got reduced to 559 MB.
>
> After this if I ran the EXPLAIN(ANALYZE,BUFFERS) for this query it was
> using the index and took only 5 secs.
>
> Can you please explain how the index size got reduced after recreating it
> and how the query started using the index after recreating?
>
>
The index can be bloated - when you recreate it or when you use REINDEX
command, then you remove a bloat content. VACUUM FULL recreate indexes too.

Fresh index needs less space on disc (the read is faster), in memory too
and has better structure - a access should be faster.



> Thanks and Regards
> Subramaniam
>

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