Re: [GENERAL] speeding up a query

2007-04-03 Thread Marcus Engene
Tom Lane skrev: Marcus Engene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Should it take 2.5s to sort these 442 rows? Limit (cost=54.40..54.43 rows=12 width=8) (actual time=2650.254..2651.093 rows=442 loops=1) -> Sort (cost=54.40..54.43 rows=12 width=8) (actual time=2650.251..2650.515 rows

Re: [GENERAL] speeding up a query

2007-04-03 Thread Marcus Engene
Hi again, I was thinking, in my slow query it seems the sorting is the villain. Doing a simple qsort test I notice that: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/pond/dev/tt $ time ./a.exe 430 real0m0.051s user0m0.030s sys 0m0.000s [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/pond/dev/tt $ time ./a.exe 430

Re: [GENERAL] speeding up a query

2007-04-03 Thread Tom Lane
Marcus Engene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Should it take 2.5s to sort these 442 rows? > Limit (cost=54.40..54.43 rows=12 width=8) (actual > time=2650.254..2651.093 rows=442 loops=1) >-> Sort (cost=54.40..54.43 rows=12 width=8) (actual > time=2650.251..2650.515 rows=442 loops=1) >

[GENERAL] speeding up a query

2007-04-03 Thread Marcus Engene
Hi, I'm on 8.0.10 and there is a query I cannot quite get adequately fast. Should it take 2.5s to sort these 442 rows? Are my settings bad? Is my query stupid? Would appreciate any tips. Best regards, Marcus apa=> explain analyze apa-> select apa-> ai.objectid as ai_objectid apa-> from

Re: [GENERAL] speeding up a query on a large table

2005-08-17 Thread Kevin Murphy
Mike Rylander wrote: On 8/17/05, Manfred Koizar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:50:55 -0400, Kevin Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: and because the number of possible search terms is so large, it would be nice if the entire index could somehow be preloaded into memor

Re: [GENERAL] speeding up a query on a large table

2005-08-17 Thread Mike Rylander
On 8/17/05, Manfred Koizar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:50:55 -0400, Kevin Murphy > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > and because the number of possible search terms is so large, it > >would be nice if the entire index could somehow be preloaded into memory > >and encouraged to

Re: [GENERAL] speeding up a query on a large table

2005-08-17 Thread Manfred Koizar
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:50:55 -0400, Kevin Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and because the number of possible search terms is so large, it >would be nice if the entire index could somehow be preloaded into memory >and encouraged to stay there. Postgres does not have such a feature and I wouldn

[GENERAL] speeding up a query on a large table

2005-07-25 Thread Kevin Murphy
I'm trying to speed up a query on a text column of a 14M-row table. Uncached query times vary between 1-20 seconds (maybe more), depending on the search term. In between time trials I've been trying to flush the disk buffer cache by selecting count(*) from a separate 4GB table, and times are pr