From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Chris Ruprecht <chris(at)cdrbill(dot)com> |
Cc: | Evgeny Shishkin <itparanoia(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Have: Seq Scan - Want: Index Scan - what am I doing wrong? |
Date: | 2012-10-17 00:31:06 |
Message-ID: | 20121017003106.GI7480@momjian.us |
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 08:19:43PM -0400, Chris Ruprecht wrote:
>
> On Oct 16, 2012, at 20:01 , Evgeny Shishkin <itparanoia(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > Selecting 5 yours of data is not selective at all, so postgres decides it is cheaper to do seqscan.
> >
> > Do you have an index on patient.dnsortpersonnumber? Can you post a result from
> > select count(*) from patient where dnsortpersonnumber = '347450'; ?
> >
>
> Yes, there is an index:
>
> "Aggregate (cost=6427.06..6427.07 rows=1 width=0)"
> " -> Index Scan using patient_pracsortpatientnumber on patient (cost=0.00..6427.06 rows=1 width=0)"
> " Index Cond: (dnsortpersonnumber = '347450'::text)"
>
>
> In fact, all the other criteria is picked using an index. I fear that the >= and <= on the timestamp is causing the issue. If I do a "=" of just one of them, I get an index scan. But I need to scan the entire range. I get queries like "give me everything that was entered into the system for this patient between these two dates". A single date wouldn't work.
Have you read our FAQ on this matter?
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/FAQ#Why_are_my_queries_slow.3F_Why_don.27t_they_use_my_indexes.3F
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