I feel the need for speed. What am I doing wrong?

From: "Dann Corbit" <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: I feel the need for speed. What am I doing wrong?
Date: 2003-01-07 00:21:30
Message-ID: D90A5A6C612A39408103E6ECDD77B8294CD786@voyager.corporate.connx.com
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I have a query using two postgres tables.
One is called "CNX_DS_53_SIS_STU_OPT_FEE_TB" and the other is called
"CNX_DS2_53_SIS_STU_OPT_FEE_TB".

I am getting 3 times slower performance than Microsoft Access when
performing a left outer join.

Here are the tables in question:

connxdatasync=# \d "CNX_DS_53_SIS_STU_OPT_FEE_TB"
Table "CNX_DS_53_SIS_STU_OPT_FEE_TB"
Attribute | Type | Modifier
----------------+---------------+----------
RT_REC_KEY | character(14) |
cnxarraycolumn | integer |
CRC | bigint | not null

connxdatasync=# \d "CNX_DS2_53_SIS_STU_OPT_FEE_TB"
Table "CNX_DS2_53_SIS_STU_OPT_FEE_TB"
Attribute | Type | Modifier
----------------+---------------+----------
RT_REC_KEY | character(14) |
cnxarraycolumn | integer |
CRC | bigint | not null

Here is the query:
select a."RT_REC_KEY", a."cnxarraycolumn", a."CRC" from
"CNX_DS_53_SIS_STU_OPT_FEE_TB" a left outer join
"CNX_DS2_53_SIS_STU_OPT_FEE_TB" b on ( a."RT_REC_KEY" = b."RT_REC_KEY"
and a."cnxarraycolumn" = b."cnxarraycolumn") where b.oid is null ;


Creating the following index had no effect on performance!
create unique index i1 on "CNX_DS2_53_SIS_STU_OPT_FEE_TB" ("RT_REC_KEY",
"cnxarraycolumn", "CRC");

Both tables had 6139062 rows of data.

In this query ... all rows of data match perfectly, so no results are
returned.

Is there a way to reformulate this query so that it will use the index?

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