On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Sergey Koposov <koposov@ast.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2012, Merlin Moncure wrote:
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>> Hm, why aren't we getting a IOS? Just for kicks (assuming this is
>> test data), can we drop the index on just transitid, leaving the index
>> on transitid, healpixid? Is enable_indexonlyscan on? Has idt_match
>> been vacuumed? What kind of plan do you get when do:
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>
> Okay dropping the index on transitid solved the issue with indexonlyscan but
> didn't solve the original problem. Actually the indexonlyscan made the
> sequential queries faster but not the parallel ones.
How big is idt_match? What if you drop all indexes on idt_match,
encouraging all the backends to do hash joins against it, which occur
in local memory and so don't have contention?
Cheers,
Jeff