Re: Select * is very slow

Kevin Grittner, 08.11.2010 18:01:
> "shaiju.ck"<shaiju(dot)ck(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> The table have 200 records now.
>> Select * from employee takes 15 seconds to fetch the data!!!
>> Which seems to be very slow.
>> But when I say select id,name from empoyee it executes in 30ms.
>> Same pefromance if I say select count(*) from emloyee.
>
> You haven't given nearly enough information for anyone to diagnose
> the issues with any certainty. Earlier responses have asked for
> some particularly important information, and I would add a request
> to see the output from `VACUUM VERBOSE employee;`. Beyond that, you
> might want to review this page for checks you can make yourself, and
> information which you could provide to allow people to give more
> informed advice:

Do you really think that VACCUM is the problem? If the OP only selects two columns it is apparently fast.
If he selects all columns it's slow, so I wouldn't suspect dead tuples here.

My bet is that there are some really large text columns in there...

He has asked the same question here:
http://forums.devshed.com/postgresql-help-21/select-is-very-slow-761130.html

but has also failed to answer the question about the table details...

Regards
Thomas