Re: Help on indexing timestamps

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:12:15 +0100
Tomasz Myrta <jasiek(at)klaster(dot)net> wrote:

> Andre Schubert wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > i have a little problem on indexing a table which contains
> > about 4 millions of traffic-data.
> > My problem is, that a want to select all data from
> > a specific month from a specific ip and this select should use the index.
> > I use the following select:
> >
> > db_nmkm3aue=# explain analyze select sum(inet_up+inet_down) from tbl_traffic where date_trunc('month',tbl_traffic.time_stamp)::timestamptz = date_trunc('month',now() - timespan('1 months')) and ip = '80.243.38.57';
> > NOTICE: QUERY PLAN:
> >
> > Aggregate (cost=116.30..116.30 rows=1 width=16) (actual time=1620.79..1620.79 rows=1 loops=1)
> > -> Index Scan using idx_ip_time_stamp on tbl_traffic (cost=0.00..116.30 rows=1 width=16) (actual time=1216.79..1579.89 rows=5232 loops=1)
> > Total runtime: 1620.94 msec
> >
> > But it takes a long time to select the traffic for all Ips.
> > Is there a way to select these data with using the index correctly ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> I have one more solution - try to rewrite your where clause to NOT USE
> function on time_stamp. If your query will look like:
> select ... where time_stamp between (function with now() returning first
> day) and (function with now() returning last day);
> your index will work fine.
>
Thanks for the hint, i will test this and report to this list.

Thanks, as