Re: performance; disk bad or something? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: performance; disk bad or something?
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Msg-id 29217.1175903030@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to performance; disk bad or something?  (Marcus Engene <mengpg2@engene.se>)
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Marcus Engene <mengpg2@engene.se> writes:
>          ->  Index Scan using apa_item_common_x1 on apa_item_common aic
> (cost=0.00..4956.68 rows=1174 width=8) (actual time=19.854..9557.606
> rows=1226 loops=1)

If the table only has 12000 rows then it should never have used an index
scan here at all --- a plain seqscan is usually the best bet for
retrieving 10% of a table.  Are you using nondefault planner settings?

How big is the table physically (VACUUM VERBOSE output about it might
tell something)?

            regards, tom lane

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