Re: Slow index scan on B-Tree index over timestamp field

From: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
To: Caio Casimiro <casimiro(dot)listas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Slow index scan on B-Tree index over timestamp field
Date: 2013-11-04 18:56:01
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Caio Casimiro <casimiro(dot)listas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I have one query running at ~ 7 seconds and I would like to know
> if it's possible to make it run faster, once this query runs lots
> of time in my experiment.

>   Buffers: shared hit=2390 read=32778

> Total runtime: 24066.145 ms

> effective_cache_size = 2GB

> it seems the problem is with the 'tweet' table.

The EXPLAIN ANALYZE output shows it taking 24 seconds, 8.9 seconds
of which is in accessing the tweet_topic table and 15.1 seconds in
accessing the tweet table.  It looks like you have a painfully low
cache hit ratio.  The plan looks reasonable to me; it looks like
you need more RAM to cache data if you want better speed.

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Kevin Grittner
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