Howdy, I am expiriencing some performance issues, on a table in my postgres db.
I cron script is being run every night (while very low db activity), that deletes all rows from the table, and injects a bunch of new data... Every day between 60.000 and 100.000 rows. Info: ppdb=> select version(); version ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PostgreSQL 7.4.1 on i386-portbld-freebsd5.2, compiled by GCC cc (GCC) 3.3.3 [FreeBSD] 20031106 (1 row) ppdb=> \d itxhas Table "public.itxhas" Column | Type | Modifiers -------------+-----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------- hasid | integer | not null default nextval('itxhas_hasid_seq'::text) partno | character varying(60) | mfg | character varying(25) | qty | character varying(20) | condition | character varying(20) | gescode | character varying(10) | cmup | numeric(14,2) | create_date | timestamp without time zone | posted_date | timestamp without time zone | status | character varying(15) | company_id | integer | die_date | timestamp without time zone | Indexes: "itx_create_date_idx" btree (create_date Every time I need to select something from this table, I feel it takes way too long.. I have run vacuum analyze without improvement. ppdb=> explain select count(*) from itxhas; QUERY PLAN -------------------------------------------------------------------- Aggregate (cost=78472.86..78472.86 rows=1 width=0) -> Seq Scan on itxhas (cost=0.00..78253.09 rows=87909 width=0) (2 rows) ppdb=> explain analyze select count(*) from itxhas; QUERY PLAN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aggregate (cost=78472.86..78472.86 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=24242.717..24242.719 rows=1 loops=1) -> Seq Scan on itxhas (cost=0.00..78253.09 rows=87909 width=0) (actual time=23763.883..24122.221 rows=87909 loops=1) Total runtime: 24242.844 ms (3 rows) Is this normal ? If I run the same select on another table in the same database with ~40.000 rows, it takes approx 820.00ms... Any ideas ? /mich -- Best Regards, Michael L. Hostbaek */ PGP-key available upon request /* ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend