Re: Slow indexscan

Mikko,

I don't follow this thread, just see familiar spherical coordinates we
work with a lot. If you need fast radial query you can use our
q3c package available from q3c.sf.net. See some details
http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/wiki/SkyPixelization

Oleg

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Mikko Partio" <mpartio(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>
>> Index Scan using tbl_20070601_pkey on tbl_20070601 t1
>> (cost=0.00..365.13rows=13 width=137) (actual time=
>> 120.83..10752.64 rows=539 loops=1)
>> Index Cond: ((validtime >= 20070602000000::bigint) AND (validtime <=
>> 20070602235500::bigint) AND (latitude = 60.2744::double precision) AND
>> (longitude = 26.4417::double precision))
>> Filter: (parname = 'temperature'::character varying)
>
> You do realize that's going to scan the entire index range from
> 20070602000000 to 20070602235500?
>
> If this is a typical query you'd be better off putting the lat/long
> columns first in the index.
>
> regards, tom lane
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Regards,
Oleg
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