Re: Help with optimizing a sql statement - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: Help with optimizing a sql statement
Date
Msg-id 20060209194603.GX57845@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: Help with optimizing a sql statement  ("Dave Dutcher" <dave@tridecap.com>)
Responses Re: Help with optimizing a sql statement  (Rafael Martinez <r.m.guerrero@usit.uio.no>)
List pgsql-performance
I looked at the estimates for the table access methods and they all
looked ok, so I think the statistics are pretty up-to-date; there just
aren't enough of them for the planner to do a good job.

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 01:44:22PM -0600, Dave Dutcher wrote:
> First I'm wondering if the tables have been recently analyzed.  If an
> analyze has been run recently, then it is probably a good idea to look
> at the statistics target.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Jim C.
> Nasby
> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 1:34 PM
> To: Rafael Martinez Guerrero
> Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Help with optimizing a sql statement
>
> At least part of the problem is that it's way off on some of the row
> estimates. I'd suggest upping the statisticss target on at least all of
> the join columns to at least 100. (Note that it's doing a nested loop
> thinking it will have only 2 rows but it actually has 22000 rows).
>
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 04:10:27PM +0100, Rafael Martinez Guerrero
> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > We are running an application via web that use a lot of time to
> perform
> > some operations. We are trying to find out if some of the sql
> statements
> > used are the reason of the slow speed.
> >
> > We have identified a sql that takes like 4-5000ms more than the second
> > slowest sql in out test server. I hope that we will get some help to
> try
> > to optimize it.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
> >
> [Snip]
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