Re: Serious Performance Loss in 7.0.2??

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Tim Perdue <tperdue(at)valinux(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew McMillan <Andrew(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Serious Performance Loss in 7.0.2??
Date: 2000-07-12 16:11:32
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.21.0007121311020.1325-100000@thelab.hub.org
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On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Tim Perdue wrote:

> Andrew McMillan wrote:
> > PostgreSQL seems to not get the index choice right when you have index
> > matches that are like =, =, =, DESC so you actually need to specify the
> > ORDER BY clause in full like:
> > ORDER BY mail_list DESC, mail_year DESC, mail_month DESC, mail_date
> > DESC
> > and things will hopefully be all OK again.
>
> Wow - that definitely does *not* work. That took 1:30 to return the
> result for the linux-kernel list.
>
> My server has a load of 19.25 right now - at 6 AM.

Ouch! because of that query, or is this standard? what is the server,
anyway?

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