[PERFORM] Query Performance question

2014-07-13 Thread Magers, James
I am using a Pentaho process to access the database and select the appropriate information to update the DB tables and records. I am trying to select the previous subscription key in order to update the factable for any records that have the previous key to have the current subscription key. Th

Re: [PERFORM] Query Performance question

2014-07-13 Thread Magers, James
Tomas, Thank you for your feedback. I am attaching the requested information. While I do not think the query is necessarily inefficient, I believe a sequence scan would be more efficient. \d member_subscription_d Table "public.member_subscription_d"

Re: [PERFORM] Query Performance question

2014-07-14 Thread Magers, James
Thomas, Thank you. I executed the query this morning after disabling the scan types. I am including links to explain.depesz output for each of the three variations that I executed. indexscan and bitmapscan off: http://explain.depesz.com/s/sIx seqscan and bitmapscan off: http://explain.depes

Re: [PERFORM] Query Performance question

2014-07-14 Thread Magers, James
Thomas, I would have to agree that the current results do indicate that. However, I have run this explain analyze multiple times and the timing varies from about 4ms to 35ms using the Bitmap Heap Scan. Here is an explain plan from Thursday of last week that shows about 21ms. Part of the issu

Re: [PERFORM] Query Performance question

2014-07-14 Thread Magers, James
Tomas, Thank you for the recommendation. In this case, The bitmap scan runs quite quickly, however in production were data may or may not be cached and at higher volumes I am trying to ensure the process will continue to execute efficiently and reduce the impact of the process on other process

Re: [PERFORM] Query Performance question

2014-07-14 Thread Magers, James
scan may not be as efficient since 4 times the data returned in just a little more time using the index scan. Thank you, James -Original Message- From: Tomas Vondra [mailto:t...@fuzzy.cz] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2014 12:29 PM To: Magers, James Cc: Tomas Vondra; Thomas Kellerer; pgsql