From: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
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To: | Eric Cholet <cholet(at)logilune(dot)com> |
Cc: | <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: index on timestamp performance |
Date: | 2003-01-29 16:51:30 |
Message-ID: | 20030129085057.W11360-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com |
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On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Eric Cholet wrote:
> I have this schema:
>
>
> motid | integer | not null
> objid | integer | not null
> date | timestamp without time zone | not null
> Indexes: dico_frs_motid_date btree (motid, date)
> dico_frs_objid btree (objid)
>
> The performance I'm getting from the index that contains
> 'date' is much slower than when using the objid index
> (different queries of course). This is a 10 million row
> table. Am I right to assume that postgres needs to do
> more work because it has to convert the dates to some
> internal (integer?) format?
What does explain (analyze if possible) show for the two queries?
It could just be a difference in plans or estimates.
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