soni de wrote:
> I have flushed the database, so currently records in the "lan" table are:
> 665280
>
> but records can be increased more than 1GB and in that case it takes more
> than 1 hour
>
> Below is explain analyze output taken from the table having 665280 records
>
> pdb=# explain analyze SELECT sdate, stime, rbts from lan WHERE (
> ( bname = 'pluto' ) AND ( cno = 17 ) AND ( pno = 1 ) AND ( ( sdate
> >= '2004-07-21' ) AND ( sdate <= '2004-07-21' ) ) ) ORDER BY sdate, stime
> ;
>
> NOTICE: QUERY PLAN:
> Sort (cost=17.13..17.13 rows=1 width=16) (actual time=619140.18..619140.29rows
> =288 loops=1)
> -> Index Scan using lan_pkey on lan (cost=0.00..17.12 rows=1 width=16)
> (actual time=7564.44..619121.61 rows=288 loops=1)
>
> Total runtime: 619140.76 msec
OK - there is clearly something wrong here when you take 10 minutes to
fetch 288 rows from an index.
1. VACUUM FULL VERBOSE lan;
2. test again, and if that doesn't work...
3. REINDEX TABLE lan;
4. test again
I'm guessing you have a *lot* of dead rows in there.
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
