From: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
To: Andre Schubert <andre@km3.de>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Help on indexing timestamps
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 13:01:16 -0200 (GMT+2)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303071258150.21682-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030307112639.395720be.andre@km3.de>
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Andre Schubert wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> i have a little problem on indexing a table which contains
> about 4 millions of traffic-data.
> My problem is, that a want to select all data from
> a specific month from a specific ip and this select should use the index.
> I use the following select:
Did you try to use BETWEEN ??
E.g.
... and time_stamp between '2003-01-01 00:00:00'::timestamp and
'2003-02-01 00:00:00'::timestamp
>
> db_nmkm3aue=# explain analyze select sum(inet_up+inet_down) from tbl_traffic where date_trunc('month',tbl_traffic.time_stamp)::timestamptz = date_trunc('month',now() - timespan('1 months')) and ip = '80.243.38.57';
> NOTICE: QUERY PLAN:
>
> Aggregate (cost=116.30..116.30 rows=1 width=16) (actual time=1620.79..1620.79 rows=1 loops=1)
> -> Index Scan using idx_ip_time_stamp on tbl_traffic (cost=0.00..116.30 rows=1 width=16) (actual time=1216.79..1579.89 rows=5232 loops=1)
> Total runtime: 1620.94 msec
>
> But it takes a long time to select the traffic for all Ips.
> Is there a way to select these data with using the index correctly ?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> BTW: Table-schema as follows
>
> db_test=# \d tbl_traffic
> Table "tbl_traffic"
> Column | Type | Modifiers
> ------------+--------------------------+-----------
> time_stamp | timestamp with time zone | not null
> ip | inet |
> local_up | bigint | not null
> local_down | bigint | not null
> inet_up | bigint | not null
> inet_down | bigint | not null
> Indexes: idx_ip_time_stamp
>
> db_test=# \d idx_ip_time_stamp
> Index "idx_ip_time_stamp"
> Column | Type
> ------------+--------------------------
> ip | inet
> time_stamp | timestamp with time zone
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