Re: Surprise :-( - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Surprise :-(
Date
Msg-id 20020905155024.B72711-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Surprise :-(  ("Mihai Gheorghiu" <tanethq@earthlink.net>)
List pgsql-general
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Mihai Gheorghiu wrote:

>
> explain select account, sum(amount) from tbas_transactions where isposted
> and trxtype = 'MP' group by account;
> psql:xx.txt:1: NOTICE:  QUERY PLAN:
>
> Aggregate  (cost=10874.64..10889.76 rows=302 width=24)
>   ->  Group  (cost=10874.64..10882.20 rows=3025 width=24)
>         ->  Sort  (cost=10874.64..10874.64 rows=3025 width=24)
>               ->  Index Scan using trx_trxtype_idx on tbas_transactions
> (cost=0.00..10699.78 rows=3025 width=24)
>
> EXPLAIN
>
> Sorry, I do not have an explain from before vacuum analyze.
> The table has ~700k rows and indices on account, trxtype and a few other
> fields used in other queries.

If you set enable_indexscan=off; and then run explain/run the query
is it better?

For other questions, how many rows have trxtype='MP' really and what
version are you running?



pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Re: Problem with LEFT function...
Next
From: "Nigel J. Andrews"
Date:
Subject: Re: Surprise :-(