index on timestamp performance - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Eric Cholet
Subject index on timestamp performance
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Msg-id 195290000.1043858235@shambala.logilune.com
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Responses UNSUBSCRIBE ME PLEASE!  (Evan Macosko <macosko@fas.harvard.edu>)
Re: index on timestamp performance  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>)
Re: index on timestamp performance  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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I have this schema:


 motid  | integer                     | not null
 objid  | integer                     | not null
 date   | timestamp without time zone | not null
Indexes: dico_frs_motid_date btree (motid, date)
         dico_frs_objid btree (objid)

The performance I'm getting from the index that contains
'date' is much slower than when using the objid index
(different queries of course). This is a 10 million row
table. Am I right to assume that postgres needs to do
more work because it has to convert the dates to some
internal (integer?) format?
Consequently would I gain performance if I changed the
schema so that 'date' is an integer (which would not
be a problem for my application) ?

Thanks,
--
Eric Cholet


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