Re: Query seem to slow if table have more than 200 million rows

""Ahmad Fajar"" <gendowo(at)konphalindo(dot)or(dot)id> wrote
> Hi Qingqing,
>
> I don't know whether the statistic got is bad or good, this is the
> statistic:

Please do it in this way:

1. Start postmaster with "stats_start_collector=true" and
"stats_block_level=true".

2. Use psql connect it, do something like this:

test=# select pg_stat_reset();
pg_stat_reset
---------------
t
(1 row)

test=# select * from pg_statio_user_indexes ;
relid | indexrelid | schemaname | relname | indexrelname | idx_blks_read |
idx_
blks_hit
-------+------------+------------+---------+--------------+---------------+-----
---------
16385 | 16390 | public | test | test_idx | 0 |
0
(1 row)

test=# select count(*) from test where a <= 1234;
count
-------
7243
(1 row)

test=# select * from pg_statio_user_indexes ;
relid | indexrelid | schemaname | relname | indexrelname | idx_blks_read |
idx_
blks_hit
-------+------------+------------+---------+--------------+---------------+-----
---------
16385 | 16390 | public | test | test_idx | 55 |
0
(1 row)

This gives us that to get "select count(*) from test where a <= 1234", I
have to read 55 index blocks (no index block hit since I just restart
postmaster so the bufferpool is empty).

Regards,
Qingqing