Re: difficulties with time based queries

From: Matthew Wakeling <matthew(at)flymine(dot)org>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: difficulties with time based queries
Date: 2009-04-06 12:24:48
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.00.0904061304440.791@aragorn.flymine.org
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On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Rainer Mager wrote:
> The data should be mostly ordered by date. It is all logged in semi-realtime
> such that 99% will be logged within an hour of the timestamp. Also, as
> stated above, during this query it was about 1.2 MB/s, which I know isn't
> great. I admit this isn't the best hardware in the world, but I would expect
> better than that for linear queries.

Might you have an unbalanced index tree? Reindexing would also solve that
problem.

Matthew

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