Ashish Karalkar wrote:

Richard Huxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ashish Karalkar wrote:
query which was taking seconds on the join of these two table
suddenly started taking 20/25 min

Show the EXPLAIN ANALYSE of your problem query and someone will be able to tell you why.

Here is the output from explain analyse:

Actually, this is the output from EXPLAIN not EXPLAIN ANALYSE. It doesn't show what actually happened, just what the planner thought was going to happen.

Are the row-estimates roughly accurate?

table structures are more or less same with delivery being parent and sms_new 
being child having index on deliveryid in both tables.

 HashAggregate  (cost=6153350.21..6153352.38 rows=174 width=32)
   ->  Hash Join  (cost=218058.30..6153259.97 rows=6016 width=32)
         Hash Cond: ("outer".deliveryid = "inner".deliveryid)
         ->  Seq Scan on sms_new  (cost=0.00..5240444.80 rows=138939341 width=8)
               Filter: ((otid)::text !~~ 'ERROR%'::text)
         ->  Hash  (cost=218057.87..218057.87 rows=174 width=32)

Well, it knows that it's going to be expensive (cost=5240444.80). Since it thinks you'll only get 174 rows from the other side and 6016 matching, I can't see how an index could be calculated as more expensive.

Try issuing ENABLE seq_scan=off and re-running the EXPLAIN, let's see what cost that comes up with.

Oh, and I take it sms_new is recently vacuumed and analysed?

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd

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