Re: [PERFORM] Sequential scan being used despite indexes

2006-01-31 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 01:33:08PM +0900, James Russell wrote: > Reading about this issue further in the FAQ, it seems that I should ensure > that Postgres has adequate and accurate information about the tables in > question by regularly running VACUUM ANALYZE, something I don't do > currently. Ma

Re: [PERFORM] Sequential scan being used despite indexes

2006-01-31 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Reading about this issue further in the FAQ, it seems that I should ensure that Postgres has adequate and accurate information about the tables in question by regularly running VACUUM ANALYZE, something I don't do currently. Well then you'll get rubbish performance always in PostgreSQL... I s

Re: [PERFORM] Sequential scan being used despite indexes

2006-01-31 Thread James Russell
[Sorry, my last reply didn't go to the list] Reading about this issue further in the FAQ, it seems that I should ensure that Postgres has adequate and accurate information about the tables in question by regularly running VACUUM ANALYZE, something I don't do currently. I disabled SeqScan as per

Re: [PERFORM] Sequential scan being used despite indexes

2006-01-31 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 07:29:51PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > Any ideas? > > What does explain analyze say? Also, have the tables been vacuumed and analyzed? -- Michael Fuhr ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [PERFORM] Sequential scan being used despite indexes

2006-01-31 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Explaining: Hash Join (cost=337.93..1267.54 rows=180 width=35) Hash Cond: ("outer".message_id = "inner".message_id) -> Seq Scan on message_meta_data (cost=0.00..739.19 rows=37719 width=30) -> Hash (cost=337.79..337.79 rows=57 width=13) -> Nested Loop (cost=0.00..337.79 rows=57 width=

[PERFORM] Sequential scan being used despite indexes

2006-01-31 Thread James Russell
Hi there, I'm running a simple query with 2 inner joins (say A, B and C). Each of the join columns has indexes. If I run queries that join just A and B, or just B and C, postgres uses indexes. But if I run "A join B join C" then the "B join C" part starts using a sequential scan and I can't figure