From: | tsuraan <tsuraan(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | group by will not use an index? |
Date: | 2007-01-09 23:05:48 |
Message-ID: | 84fb38e30701091505n59e85c74i27e6ab0e5cdfdd03@mail.gmail.com |
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I have a table of messages with paths and inserted dates (among other
things), like so:
CREATE TABLE Messages (
msgkey BIGSERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
path TEXT NOT NULL,
inserted TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIMEZONE DEFAULT NOW()
);
I run a query to determine which days actually saw emails come in, like so:
SELECT DATE(inserted) FROM Messages GROUP BY DATE(inserted);
That's obviously not very efficient, so I made an index:
CREATE INDEX messages_date_inserted_ind ON Messages(DATE(inserted));
However, GROUP BY does not use this index:
=# explain analyze select date(inserted) from messages group by
date(inserted);
QUERY
PLAN
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HashAggregate (cost=104773.10..104789.51 rows=1313 width=8) (actual time=
31269.476..31269.557 rows=44 loops=1)
-> Seq Scan on messages (cost=0.00..101107.25 rows=1466340 width=8)
(actual time=23.923..25248.400 rows=1467036 loops=1)
Total runtime: 31269.735 ms
(3 rows)
Is it possible to get pg to use an index in a group by? I don't see why it
wouldn't be possible, but maybe I'm missing something.
Using pg 8.1.4...
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