Re: Why date index is not used

> Actually It looks to me like the sorting is the slow part of this query.
> Maybe if you did create an index on both kuupaev and kellaaeg it might
> make the sorting faster.

Thank you. It makes query fast.

> Or maybe you could try increasing the server's
> work mem. The sort will be much slower if the server can't do the whole
> thing in ram.

I have W2K server with 0.5 GB RAM
there are only 6 connections open ( 6 point of sales) to this server.
shared_buffes is 10000
I see approx 10 postgres processes in task manager each taking about 30 MB
ram

Server prefomance is very slow: Windows swap file size is 1 GB

For each sale a new row will be inserted to this table. So the file size
grows rapidly every day.
Changing work_mem by 1 MB increares memory requirment by 10 MB since I may
have 10 processes running. Sorting in memory this table requires very large
amout of work_mem for each process address space.

I think that if I increase work_mem then swap file will became bigger and
perfomance will decrease even more.

How to increase perfomance ?

Andrus.