On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> I just vacuum analyse'd the database.
>
> Trying to run this query:
> EXPLAIN ANALYSE
> select * FROM trans
> WHERE query_id NOT IN (select query_id FROM query)
>
> but it will remain like that forever (cancelled after 30 min).
>
> My postgresql.conf is the default:
> # - Memory -
>
> shared_buffers = 1000 # min 16, at least max_connections*2,
> 8KB each
> #sort_mem = 1024 # min 64, size in KB
> #vacuum_mem = 8192 # min 1024, size in KB
>
> Should I adjust something?
Probably sort_mem. It's probably estimating that it can't hash the result
into the 1MB of sort_mem so it's probably falling back to some sort of
nested execution.
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TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your
joining column's datatypes do not match
