Re: more problems with count(*) on large table

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Mike Charnoky <noky(at)nextbus(dot)com>
Cc: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Alban Hertroys <a(dot)hertroys(at)magproductions(dot)nl>, "A(dot) Kretschmer" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: more problems with count(*) on large table
Date: 2007-10-01 17:33:53
Message-ID: 20071001173353.GA20792@alvh.no-ip.org
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Mike Charnoky wrote:
> This is strange... count(*) operations over a period of one day's worth
> of data now take ~1-2 minutes to run or ~40 minutes. It seems that the
> first time the data is queried it takes about 40 minutes. If I try the
> query again, it finishes in 1-2 minutes!

This is just cache effect.

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