Re: Performance w/ multiple WHERE clauses

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Aaron Held <aaron(at)metrony(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Performance w/ multiple WHERE clauses
Date: 2002-09-18 21:58:56
Message-ID: 20020918145825.X19535-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Aaron Held wrote:

> I am running into a serious performance issue with some basic queries.
>
> If I run something like
>
> select * from "Calls" WHERE
> ( ("CallType" = 'LONG DIST' ))
>
> The search takes about 15 seconds
>
> if I run
> select * from "Calls" WHERE
> ( ( "DateOfCall"='06/19/02') )
> AND ( ( "CallType" = 'LONG DIST' ))
> [DateOfCall is a DateTime field]
>
> it takes 15 minutes!
>
> both columns are indexed individually and expalain reports and Index scan for both
> queries.
>
> Any pointers where to look next?

Are they using the same index? Have you done analyze
recently?

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