I have a table called stop_event (a stop event is one bus passing one bus
stop at a given time for a given route and direction), and I'd like to get
the average interval for each stop/route/direction combination.
A few hundred new events are written to the table once every minute. No
rows are ever updated (or deleted, except in development).
stop_event looks like this:
Table "public.stop_event"
Column | Type | Modifiers
-----------+-----------------------------+-----------
stop_time | timestamp without time zone | not null
stop | integer | not null
bus | integer | not null
direction | integer | not null
route | integer | not null
Foreign-key constraints:
"stop_event_direction_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (direction) REFERENCES
direction(id)
"stop_event_route_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (route) REFERENCES route(id)
"stop_event_stop" FOREIGN KEY (stop) REFERENCES stop(id)
And my query looks like this:
SELECT (floor(date_part(E'epoch', avg(interval))) / 60)::INTEGER,
route,
direction,
name,
st_asgeojson(stop_location)::JSON
FROM
(SELECT (stop_time - (lag(stop_time) OVER w)) AS interval,
route,
direction,
name,
stop_location
FROM stop_event
INNER JOIN stop ON (stop_event.stop = stop.id)
WINDOW w AS (PARTITION BY route, direction, stop ORDER BY stop_time))
AS all_intervals
WHERE (interval IS NOT NULL)
GROUP BY route,
direction,
name,
stop_location;
With around 1.2 million rows, this takes 20 seconds to run. 1.2 million
rows is only about a week's worth of data, so I'd like to figure out a way
to make this faster. The EXPLAIN ANALYZE is at
http://explain.depesz.com/s/ntC.
Clearly the bulk of the time is spent sorting the rows in the original
table, and then again sorting the results of the subselect. But I'm afraid
I don't really know what to do with this information. Is there any way I
can speed this up? Is my use of an aggregate key for stop_event causing
problems? Would using a synthetic key help?
Thank you for any help you can provide,
-Eli
