Re: seqscan for 100 out of 3M rows, index present

From: "ktm(at)rice(dot)edu" <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu>
To: Willy-Bas Loos <willybas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: seqscan for 100 out of 3M rows, index present
Date: 2013-06-26 20:48:04
Message-ID: 20130626204804.GC3264@aart.rice.edu
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On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:36:10PM +0200, Willy-Bas Loos wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Why is it retrieving 3.1 million, when it only needs 17?
> >
> >
> > that's because of the sequential scan, it reads all the data.
>
> cheers,
>
> willy-bas

Well, the two plans timings were pretty close together. Maybe your
cost model is off. Try adjusting the various cost parameters to
favor random I/O more.

Regards,
Ken

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