Hi, I have a table in my database that is updated every minute with new acquired data. Anyway there is a query to get latest values to be displayed on screen. I have postgresql 7.4.2 that work very fine. The problem was that after hdd crash I have rebuild database from the archive and... Execution time of this query starts to be unacceptable. And I found funny thing. Using static value in place expression remove this problem. Query started to be executed fast again. I did not change any settings in postgresql configuration. Just had to restart all the services. Can someone tell me why the optimizer stopped to choose index? I had seqscan disabled already. One note about those two outputs below: there are different number of touples returned due to the fact that in fact the timestamp is chosen differently. Regards, /Arek ------------------------------------------------------------------ explain analyze SELECT distinct on (index) index, status, value FROM _values WHERE device=1 and timestamp>(now()-5*interval '1 min') ORDER by index, timestamp desc; QUERY PLAN ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Unique (cost=100117679.93..100117756.29 rows=1 width=24) (actual time=5279.262..5279.308 rows=10 loops=1) -> Sort (cost=100117679.93..100117718.11 rows=15272 width=24) (actual time=5279.260..5279.275 rows=21 loops=1) Sort Key: "index", "timestamp" -> Seq Scan on _values (cost=100000000.00..100116618.64 rows=15272 width=24) (actual time=5277.596..5279.184 rows=21 loops=1) Filter: ((device = 1) AND (("timestamp")::timestamp with time zone > (now() - '00:05:00'::interval))) Total runtime: 5279.391 ms (6 rows) explain analyze SELECT distinct on (index) index, status, value FROM _values WHERE device=1 and timestamp>'2007-04-22 21:20' ORDER by index, timestamp desc; QUERY PLAN ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- Unique (cost=703.45..703.47 rows=1 width=24) (actual time=4.807..4.867 rows=10 loops=1) -> Sort (cost=703.45..703.46 rows=5 width=24) (actual time=4.804..4.827 rows=31 loops=1) Sort Key: "index", "timestamp" -> Index Scan using _values_dbidx_idx on _values (cost=0.00..703.39 rows=5 width=24) (actual time=0.260..4.728 rows=31 loops=1) Index Cond: ("timestamp" > '2007-04-22 21:20:00'::timestamp without time zone) Filter: (device = 1) Total runtime: 4.958 ms (7 rows) -- List przeskanowano programem ArcaMail, ArcaVir 2007 przeskanowano 2007-04-23 19:20:29, silnik: 2007.01.01 12:00:00, bazy: 2007.04.15 09:21:20 This message has been scanned by ArcaMail, ArcaVir 2007 scanned 2007-04-23 19:20:29, engine: 2007.01.01 12:00:00, base: 2007.04.15 09:21:20 http://www.arcabit.com