| From: | bob_bamber(at)hotmail(dot)com (Bob) | 
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| To: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Slow subquery on large dataset | 
| Date: | 2004-02-19 22:07:10 | 
| Message-ID: | b598ae2.0402191407.c1548ea@posting.google.com | 
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Hi,
I'm having some performance issues when querying a couple of tables
containing a large amount of data.
Here's the schema:
CREATE TABLE capacity_data (
  data_id SERIAL,
  data TEXT,
  modified TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW(),
  modified_by INTEGER NOT NULL,
  CONSTRAINT capacity_data_pk PRIMARY KEY (data_id),
  CONSTRAINT capacity_data_modified_by_fk FOREIGN KEY (modified_by)
REFERENCES editors(editor_id)
);
CREATE TABLE capacities (
CREATE TABLE capacities (
  room_id BIGINT NOT NULL,
  capacity_type_id BIGINT NOT NULL,
  data_id BIGINT NOT NULL,
  modified TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW(),
  modified_by INTEGER NOT NULL,
  CONSTRAINT capacities_pk PRIMARY KEY (room_id, data_id),
  CONSTRAINT capacities_room_id_fk FOREIGN KEY (room_id) REFERENCES
meeting_rooms(room_id) ON DELETE CASCADE,
  CONSTRAINT capacities_capacity_type_id_fk FOREIGN KEY
(capacity_type_id) REFERENCES capacity_types(capacity_type_id) ON
DELETE CASCADE,
  CONSTRAINT capacities_data_id_fk FOREIGN KEY (data_id) REFERENCES
capacity_data(data_id) ON DELETE CASCADE,
  CONSTRAINT capacities_modified_by_fk FOREIGN KEY (modified_by)
REFERENCES editors(editor_id)
);  data_id BIGINT NOT NULL,
  modified TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW(),
  modified_by INTEGER NOT NULL,
  CONSTRAINT capacities_pk PRIMARY KEY (room_id, data_id),
  CONSTRAINT capacities_room_id_fk FOREIGN KEY (room_id) REFERENCES
meeting_rooms(room_id) ON DELETE CASCADE,
  CONSTRAINT capacities_capacity_type_id_fk FOREIGN KEY
(capacity_type_id) REFERENCES capacity_types(capacity_type_id) ON
DELETE CASCADE,
  CONSTRAINT capacities_data_id_fk FOREIGN KEY (data_id) REFERENCES
capacity_data(data_id) ON DELETE CASCADE,
  CONSTRAINT capacities_modified_by_fk FOREIGN KEY (modified_by)
REFERENCES editors(editor_id)
);
I'm using a subquery to find all the capacity_data.data_id's that are
not in capacities:
foo=# SELECT data_id FROM capacity_data WHERE data_id NOT IN (SELECT
data_id FROM capacities);
However, I have over 15,000 records in capacity_data.  Here is the
query plan:
                               QUERY PLAN
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Seq Scan on capacity_data  (cost=0.00..2086295.56 rows=7538 width=4)
   Filter: (subplan)
   SubPlan
     ->  Seq Scan on capacities  (cost=0.00..276.75 rows=15075
width=8)
(4 rows)
A little on the slow side!  I have indexes on data_id in both tables
(in capacity_data it's the primary key) how can I use them to quickly
acheive what I want?
Thanks in advance,
Bob.
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