Re: Difference in query plan

From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: Patrice Beliveau <pbeliveau(at)avior(dot)ca>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Difference in query plan
Date: 2008-11-14 17:14:17
Message-ID: 491DB1E9.6030500@archonet.com
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Patrice Beliveau wrote:
> Thanks,
>
> I'm already doing a vacuum full every night on all database, but the
> REINDEX fix it and now it's working fine

Are you sure it was the REINDEX? The plan was using a sequential scan.

> But this raise a question
>
> 1) This table is cleared every night and recomputed, does this mean that
> I should REINDEX every night also

Looks like you should. Or drop the indexes, load the data, re-create the
indexes, that can be quicker.

> 2) Why this thing didn't happen in the other schema

Have you re-loaded schema1 more often? It might even be the particular
order that rows are loaded - a btree can become "unbalanced" sometimes.

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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