On 11/05/10 13:32, Carlo Stonebanks wrote: > Hello all, > > A query ran twice in succession performs VERY poorly the first time as > it iterates through the nested loop. The second time, it rips. Please > see SQL, SLOW PLAN and FAST PLAN below. I haven't looked at the details, but the comment you made about it being fast on the live server which hits this query frequently tends to suggest that this is a caching issue. Most likely, the first time Pg has to read the data from disk. The second time, it's in memory-based disk cache or even in Pg's shared_buffers, so it can be accessed vastly quicker. -- Craig Ringer Tech-related writing: http://soapyfrogs.blogspot.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
