Re: Difference in query plan

Patrice Beliveau wrote:
> I have a database in a production server (8.1.9) with to schema
> containing the sames table same index, same every thing, but with
> different data. When I execute a query in one schema, it take much more
> time to execute then the other schema.
[snip]
> I'm wondering where to start searching to fix this problem

> Production server schema 1 query plan:
> Nested Loop (cost=569.23..634.43 rows=1 width=121) (actual
> time=1032.811..1032.811 rows=0 loops=1)
[snip]
> Total runtime: 1034.204 ms

> Production server schema 2 query plan:
> Nested Loop (cost=133.42..793.12 rows=1 width=123) (actual
> time=0.130..0.130 rows=0 loops=1)
[snip]
> Total runtime: 0.305 ms

Well there's something strange - the estimated costs are fairly similar
(643.43 vs 793.12) but the times are clearly very different (1034 vs 0.3ms)

The suspicious line from the first plan is:
> -> Seq Scan on mrp m (cost=0.00..119.92 rows=5892
> width=39) (actual time=0.343..939.462 rows=5892 loops=1)

This is taking up almost all the time in the query and yet only seems to
be scanning 5892 rows.

Run a vacuum verbose against table "mrp" and see if it's got a lot of
dead rows. If it has, run VACUUM FULL and REINDEX against it and see if
that solves your problem.

I'm guessing you have / had a long-running transaction interfering with
vacuum on this table, or perhaps a bulk update/delete?

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd