Re: Slow indexscan

On 6/20/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> "Mikko Partio" <mpartio(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Adding a new index does not speed up the query (although the planner
> decides
> > to use the index):
>
> Hm. Lots of dead rows maybe? What's your vacuuming policy?
>
> regards, tom lane

The table only gets inserts and selects, never updates or deletes so I guess
vacuuming isn't necessary. Anyways:

db=# SET default_statistics_target TO 1000;
SET
db=# vacuum analyze verbose tbl_20070601;
INFO: --Relation public.tbl_20070601--
INFO: Index tbl_20070601_pkey: Pages 95012; Tuples 3715565: Deleted 0.
CPU 8.63s/1.82u sec elapsed 367.57 sec.
INFO: Index tbl_20070601_latlonvalidpar_index: Pages 27385; Tuples 3715565:
Deleted 0.
CPU 1.55s/1.22u sec elapsed 23.27 sec.
INFO: Removed 2865 tuples in 2803 pages.
CPU 0.30s/0.20u sec elapsed 37.91 sec.
INFO: Pages 83950: Changed 0, Empty 0; Tup 3715565: Vac 2865, Keep 0,
UnUsed 0.
Total CPU 12.32s/3.69u sec elapsed 449.98 sec.
INFO: Analyzing public.tbl_20070601
VACUUM
db=# set sort_mem to 50000;
SET
db=# explain analyze * from tbl_20070601 where validtime between
20070602000000 and 20070602235500 and latitude=60.2744 and
longitude=26.4417and parname in ('temperature');

QUERY PLAN
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Index Scan using tbl_20070601_latlonvalidpar on tbl_20070601 t1 (cost=
0.00..28.46 rows=13 width=137) (actual time=37.81..1415.06 rows=539 loops=1)
Index Cond: ((latitude = 60.2744::double precision) AND (longitude =
26.4417::double precision) AND (validtime >= 20070602000000::bigint) AND
(validtime <= 20070602235500::bigint) AND (parname =
'temperature'::character varying))
Total runtime: 1416.53 msec
(3 rows)

I guess the sort_mem helped, or then part of the rows are in the cache
already. Should increasing sort_mem help here since there are no sorts etc?

Regards

MP