I've tried to use Dan Tow's tuning method
Who? What?
> and created all the right
indexes from his diagraming method, but the query still performs quite slow both inside the application and just inside pgadmin III. Can anyone be kind enough to help me tune it so that it performs better in postgres? I don't think it's using the right indexes, or maybe postgres needs special treatment.
I've converted the below query to SQL from a Hibernate query, so the syntax is probably not perfect but it's semantics are exactly the same. I've done so by looking at the source code, but I can't run it to get the exact SQL since I don't have the database on my home machine.
Hibernate is a java thing, no? It'd be helpful to have the actual SQL the hibernate class (or whatever) generates. One of the problems with SQL is that you can have multiple ways to get the same results and it's not always possible for the planner to convert from one to the other.
Anyway, people will want to see EXPLAIN ANALYSE for the query in question. Obviously, make sure you've vacuumed and analysed the tables in question recently. Oh, and make sure yousay what version of PG you're running.
select s.* from shipment s inner join carrier_code cc on s.carrier_code_id = cc.id inner join carrier c on cc.carrier_id = c.id inner join carrier_to_person ctp on ctp.carrier_id = c.id inner join person p on p.id = ctp.person_id inner join shipment_status cs on s.current_status_id = cs.id inner join release_code rc on cs.release_code_id = rc.id left join shipment_status ss on ss.shipment_id = s.id where p.id = :personId and s.is_purged = false and rc.number = '9' and cs is not null and cs.date >= current_date - 31 order by cs.date desc
1. Why are you quoting the 9 when checking against rc.number? 2. The "cs is not null" doesn't appear to be qualified - which table?
Just assume I have no indexes for the moment because while some of the indexes I made make it work faster, it's still around 250 milliseconds and under heavy load, the query performs very badly (6-7 seconds).
3. If you rewrite the "current_date - 31" as a suitable ago(31) function then you can use an index on cs.date
4. Are you familiar with the configuration setting "join_collapse_limit"?
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