On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Tom Lane wrote: > Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Might be worth trying a larger statistics target (say 100), in the hope > > that the planner then has better information to work with. > > I concur with that suggestion. Looking at Marc's problem: > > QUERY PLAN > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Hash Join (cost=13918.23..26550.58 rows=17 width=8) (actual > time=4053.403..83481.769 rows=13415 loops=1) > Hash Cond: ("outer".url_id = "inner".rec_id) > -> Index Scan using n8_word on ndict8 (cost=0.00..12616.09 rows=3219 width=8) > (actual time=113.645..79163.431 rows=15533 loops=1) > Index Cond: (word_id = 417851441) > -> Hash (cost=13913.31..13913.31 rows=1968 width=4) (actual > time=3920.597..3920.597 rows=0 loops=1) > -> Seq Scan on url (cost=0.00..13913.31 rows=1968 width=4) (actual > time=3.837..2377.853 rows=304811 loops=1) > Filter: ((url || ''::text) ~~ > 'http://archives.postgresql.org/%%'::text) > Total runtime: 83578.572 ms > (8 rows) > > the slowness is not really in the LIKE, it's in the indexscan on ndict8 > (79 out of 83 seconds spent there). The planner probably would not have > chosen this plan if it hadn't been off by a factor of 5 on the rows > estimate. So try knocking up the stats target for ndict8.word_id, > re-analyze, and see what happens.
'k, and for todays question ... how does one 'knock up the stats target'? This is stuff I've not played with yet, so a URL to read up on this would be nice, vs just how to do it? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]