Re: Read performance on Large Table - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Gilberto Castillo
Subject Re: Read performance on Large Table
Date
Msg-id 43242.192.168.207.54.1432224058.squirrel@webmail.etecsa.cu
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In response to Read performance on Large Table  (Kido Kouassi <jjkido@gmail.com>)
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> Hello Admin,


Hi Kido,

Create indece in the fields that you use to compare the JOIN


> I am looking to build a database to log activities on my system
>
> Currently I have the following  table:
>
> CREATE TABLE table
> (
>   attr1 bigint,
>   attr2 text,
>   attr3 timestamp without time zone,
>   attr4 integer,
>   attr5 character varying(50),
>   attr6 character varying(50),
>   attr7 character varying(50),
>   attr8 character varying(50),
>   attr9 character varying(50),
>   attr10 character varying(50)
> )
>
> Over 3 months the table has grown to 600+ Millions Rows,
>
> We mainly do inserts, we almost never do updates or delete.
>
> However the table is not very useful as it stands  because any select  we
> run it takes a very long time ( in hours) to complete.
>
>
> Question1: Is Slowness to be expected with such big table?
> Question2: is there anything I am not doing that I should do to get a
> better perfomance?
>
> I am thinking about 2 solution but I wanted to Ask the more experienced
> people before implementing them:
>
> 1: Break the table into multiple small table for each week.
> 2: Create an index on the Timestamp column sin it is the one we use the
> most in queries.
>
> Thank you in advance for you Help,
>
> --Kido K.
>
>
> Note:
>  explain analyse select count(*) from table where attr5='value' and attr3
> >
> '05/19/2015 00:00:00' and attr3 < '05/21/2015 00:00:00';
>
> Has been running for 30 minutes and counting....



Saludos,
Gilberto Castillo
ETECSA, La Habana, Cuba
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