I have a database that logs website requests, and I'm trying to get
all unique visitors within the last 1 minute, 5 minutes and 10
minutes. I have a table that I have the schema for below that incude
a field remote_ip.
When I perform the query with the filter, and the query without, the
results are the same:
dblogger=# select count(distinct(remote_ip)) from weblog_entry where
request_time>(current_time-interval '1 minute');
count
-------
313
(1 row)
dblogger=# select count(distinct(remote_ip)) from weblog_entry;
count
-------
316
(1 row)
dblogger=# explain select count(distinct(remote_ip)) from weblog_entry
where request_time>(current_time-interval '1 minute');
QUERY PLAN
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aggregate (cost=951.98..951.98 rows=1 width=40)
-> Seq Scan on weblog_entry (cost=0.00..940.85 rows=4452 width=40)
Filter: ((request_time)::text > ((('now'::text)::time(6) with
time zone - '00:01:00'::interval))::text)
(3 rows)
This explain plain seems to me to be saying that it's casting the
timestamp to a text type before comparing with my
current_time-interval.
If I cast request_time directly to a time(6), then it works:
dblogger=# explain select count(distinct(remote_ip)) from weblog_entry
where request_time::time(6)>(current_time-interval '1 minute');
QUERY PLAN
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aggregate (cost=1177.00..1177.00 rows=1 width=40)
-> Seq Scan on weblog_entry (cost=0.00..1165.46 rows=4612 width=40)
Filter: (((request_time)::time(6) without time zone)::time
with time zone > (('now'::text)::time(6) with time zone -
'00:01:00'::interval))
(3 rows)
dblogger=# select count(distinct(remote_ip)) from weblog_entry where
request_time::time(6)>(current_time-interval '1 minute');
count
-------
18
(1 row)
Is this the right behaviour?
I'm using Postgresql 8.0.1 on AMD64 compiled from source with -m64
-march=k8 -O3 on SuSe 9.2
Alex Turner
NetEconomist
