Re: Too slow querying a table of 15 million records - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From John A Meinel
Subject Re: Too slow querying a table of 15 million records
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Msg-id 42C0EF9B.3070308@arbash-meinel.com
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In response to Re: Too slow querying a table of 15 million records  (Tobias Brox <tobias@nordicbet.com>)
List pgsql-performance
Tobias Brox wrote:

>[kjelle@bingon.no - Tue at 08:33:58PM +0200]
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>>I use FreeBSD 4.11 with PostGreSQL 7.3.8.
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>(...)
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>>database=> explain select date_trunc('hour', time),count(*) as total from
>>test where p1=53 and time > now() - interval '24 hours' group by
>>date_trunc order by date_trunc ;
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>I haven't looked through all your email yet, but this phenomena have been up
>at the list a couple of times.  Try replacing "now() - interval '24 hours'"
>with a fixed time stamp, and see if it helps.
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>pg7 will plan the query without knowledge of what "now() - interval '24
>hours'" will compute to.  This should be fixed in pg8.
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The grandparent was a mailing list double send. Notice the date is 1
week ago. It has already been answered (though your answer is still
correct).

John
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