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From François Beausoleil
Subject Re: explain analyze reports that my queries are fast but they run very slowly
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In response to explain analyze reports that my queries are fast but they run very slowly  (Nikolas Everett <nik9000@gmail.com>)
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Re: explain analyze reports that my queries are fast but they run very slowly
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Le 2012-12-27 à 12:10, Nikolas Everett a écrit :

> We just upgraded from 8.3 to 9.1 and we're seeing some performance problems.  When we EXPLAIN ANALYZE our queries the
explainresult claim that the queries are reasonably fast but the wall clock time is way way longer.  Does anyone know
whythis might happen? 
>
> Like so:
> db=>\timing
> db=>EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT max(id) FROM foo WHERE blah_id = 1209123;
>
> The plan is sensible.  The estimates are sensible.  The actual DB time reads like it is very sensible.  But the wall
clocktime is like 11 seconds and the \timing report confirms it. 
>
> Any ideas?

Could you post the actual plans? On both versions? That would help a lot.

Also, http://explain.depesz.com/ helps readability.

Bye,
François



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