Tom Lane wrote:
> > As requested by "The Hermit Hacker", I took out the ORDER BY and it was
> > instantaneous.
>
> How long does it take to do
> SELECT count(*) FROM tbl_mail_archive WHERE fld_mail_list=35 AND
> fld_mail_year=2000 AND fld_mail_month=1
> ? That should tell us how much time is being spent in the indexscan.
It's pretty much instantaneous.
> Also, when you are doing the complete query with sort, does a
> pg_sorttemp file appear in the database directory? If so, how big does
> it get?
Doesn't look like it. There is a (supposedly) dead pg_sorttemp file in
that directory that is 74MB. Probably unrelated.
My only remaining question is whether an index on 4,000,000 datestamps
is going to be fast or not. Or how Long will my nightly vacuum run?
Forever?
Tim
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