Re: Possible to improve query plan?

Hi Andy,

Yes important omissions:

Server version: 8.4.6
OS Windows Server 2003 Standard Ed :(
The work mem is 50mb.

I tried setting the work_mem to 500mb, but it didn't make a huge difference in query execution time. But then again the OS disk caching is probably taking over here.

Ok here's the new plan with work_mem = 50mb:

http://explain.depesz.com/s/xwv

And here another plan with work_mem = 500mb:

http://explain.depesz.com/s/VmO

Thanks,
Jeremy

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Colson [mailto:andy(at)squeakycode(dot)net]
Sent: Monday, 17 January 2011 5:57 p.m.
To: Jeremy Palmer
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Possible to improve query plan?

Hum.. yeah it looks like it takes no time at all to pull data from the individual indexes, and them bitmap them. I'm not sure what the bitmap heap scan is, or why its slow. Hopefully someone smarter will come along.

Also its weird that explain.depesz.com didnt parse and show your entire plan. Hum.. you seem to have ending quotes on some of the lines?

One other though: quicksort Memory: 23960kB
It needs 20Meg to sort... It could be your sort is swapping to disk.

What sort of PG version is this?
What are you using for work_mem? (you could try to bump it up a little (its possible to set for session only, no need for server restart) and see if that'd help.

And sorry, but its my bedtime, good luck though.

-Andy

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