Re: Abnormal performance difference between Postgres and MySQL

The result set should have 31 rows, that is correct.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Farhan Husain <russoue(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> This sort here:
>
> > -> Sort (cost=565372.46..568084.16 rows=1084680 width=74) (actual
> > time=5410606.604..5410606.628 rows=31 loops=1)
> > Sort Key: a1.subj
> > Sort Method: quicksort Memory: 489474kB
> > -> Seq Scan on jena_g1t1_stmt a1 (cost=0.00..456639.59
> > rows=1084680 width=74) (actual time=0.043..44005.780 rows=3192000
> loops=1)
>
> Seems to be the problem. There are a few things that seem odd, the
> first is that it estimates it will return 1M ros, but returns only 31.
> The other is that sorting 31 rows is taking 5410606 milliseconds.
>
> My first guess would be to crank up the statistics on a1.subj to a few
> hundred (going up to a thousand if necessary) re-analyzing and seeing
> if the query plan changes.
>
> I'm not expert enough on explain analyze to offer any more.
>

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Mohammad Farhan Husain
Research Assistant
Department of Computer Science
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
University of Texas at Dallas