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From Magnus Naeslund(f)
Subject Damn slow query
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Msg-id 03a701c26fdb$9ec50c30$f80c0a0a@mnd
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Responses Re: Damn slow query  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>)
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Hello, i've got this query that's really slow...
Figure this:

testdb=> select now() ; select gid from bs where gid not in ( select x
from z2test ); select now();             now
-------------------------------2002-10-09 22:37:21.234627+02
(1 row)
  gid
----------<lotsa rows>
(524 rows)             now
-------------------------------2002-10-09 23:20:53.227844+02
(1 row)

That's 45 minutes i don't wanna spend in there...
I got indexes:

testdb=> \d bs_gid_idx Index "bs_gid_idx"Column |         Type
--------+-----------------------gid    | character varying(16)online | smallint
btree

testdb=> \d z2test_x_idx;     Index "z2test_x_idx"Column |         Type
--------+-----------------------x      | character varying(16)
btree

Rowcounts are:

testdb=> select count(*) from bs ; select count(*) from z2test ;count
-------25376
(1 row)
count
-------19329
(1 row)

The bs table have many other columns besides the gid one, the z2test
table only has the x column.

How can i speed this query up?
It never scans by the indexes.
I know it's a lot of iterations anyway i do it, but this is too damn
slow.

I can't profile anything at this box, because it's in production state,
but if you really want me to, i'll do it tomorrow on another box.

Magnus

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