Re: Poor performance on very simple query ?

From: Arnaud Lesauvage <thewild(at)freesurf(dot)fr>
To: Tobias Brox <tobias(at)nordicbet(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Poor performance on very simple query ?
Date: 2006-10-03 12:25:28
Message-ID: 452256B8.9050607@freesurf.fr
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Tobias Brox wrote:
> [Arnaud Lesauvage - Tue at 02:13:59PM +0200]
>> Tobias Brox wrote:
>> >Oh, the gid is not primary key. I guess I should also apologize for
>> >adding noise here :-)
>>
>> Yes, it is a primary key, but I am the noise maker here ! ;-)
>
> Oh - it is. How can you have a default value on a primary key?

Good question, but I am not the DB designer in that case.

> Will it
> use the index if you do "analyze"? Is there an index on the table at
> all, do you get it up if you ask for a description of the table (\d
> tablename)?

In this case (a simplified version of the real case), the pkey is the
only index. It is used if I only as for one row (WHERE gid=33).

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