Re: performance problem

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:52:10PM -0700, Rick Gigger wrote:

> I worked around this by starting the transaction and inserting the 45,000
> rows and then killing it. The I removed the index and readded it which
> apparently gathered some stats and since there were all of the dead tuples
> in there from the failed transaction it now decided that it should use the
> index. I reran the script and this time it took 5 minutes again instead of
> 1 1/2 hours.

Stats are not collected automatically. You should run ANALYZE after
importing your data. And it's probably faster to create the index after
the data is loaded, too.

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