Re: difficulties with time based queries - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Matthew Wakeling
Subject Re: difficulties with time based queries
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Msg-id alpine.DEB.2.00.0904061304440.791@aragorn.flymine.org
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In response to Re: difficulties with time based queries  ("Rainer Mager" <rainer@vanten.com>)
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On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Rainer Mager wrote:
> The data should be mostly ordered by date. It is all logged in semi-realtime
> such that 99% will be logged within an hour of the timestamp. Also, as
> stated above, during this query it was about 1.2 MB/s, which I know isn't
> great. I admit this isn't the best hardware in the world, but I would expect
> better than that for linear queries.

Might you have an unbalanced index tree? Reindexing would also solve that
problem.

Matthew

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