Re: Inner Join of the same table

From: Jim Nasby <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: sebaioni-postgresql(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)ar
Cc: Performance PostgreSQL <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Inner Join of the same table
Date: 2006-08-15 19:27:49
Message-ID: 165A9949-55BC-4BFC-9CEF-4F54B23731BE@pervasive.com
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On Aug 15, 2006, at 1:53 PM, Sebastián Baioni wrote:
> 9 -> Index Scan using uesapt001 on
> APORTES (cost=0.00..37301678.64
> rows=9339331 width=25) (actual time=110.000..2520690.000
> rows=9335892 loops=1)

It's taking 2520 seconds to scan an index with 9M rows, which sounds
way, way too slow. I suspect that index got bloated badly at some
point by not vacuuming frequently enough (autovacuum is your friend).
Try reindexing and see if that fixes the problem.
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