Reason of Slowness of query

[Adarsh Sharma <adarsh.sharma@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

I have 2 tables in my database name clause2( 4900 MB) & page_content(1582 MB).

My table definations are as :

page_content :-

CREATE TABLE page_content
(
  content_id integer,
  wkb_geometry geometry,
  link_level integer,
  isprocessable integer,
  isvalid integer,
  isanalyzed integer,
  islocked integer,
  content_language character(10),
  url_id integer,
  publishing_date character(40),
  heading character(150),
  category character(150),
  crawled_page_url character(500),
  keywords character(500),
  dt_stamp timestamp with time zone,
  "content" character varying,
  crawled_page_id bigint,
  id integer
)
WITH (
  OIDS=FALSE
);

Indexes on it :-
CREATE INDEX idx_page_id  ON page_content  USING btree  (crawled_page_id);
CREATE INDEX idx_page_id_content   ON page_content  USING btree  (crawled_page_id, content_language, publishing_date, isprocessable);
CREATE INDEX pgweb_idx  ON page_content   USING gin   (to_tsvector('english'::regconfig, content::text));

clause 2:-
CREATE TABLE clause2
(
  id bigint NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval('clause_id_seq'::regclass),
  source_id integer,
  sentence_id integer,
  clause_id integer,
  tense character varying(30),
  clause text,
  CONSTRAINT pk_clause_demo_id PRIMARY KEY (id)
)WITH ( OIDS=FALSE);

Indexes on it :

CREATE INDEX idx_clause2_march10
  ON clause2
  USING btree
  (id, source_id);

I perform a join query on it as :

 explain analyze select distinct(p.crawled_page_id) from page_content p , clause2  c where p.crawled_page_id != c.source_id ;

What it takes more than 1 hour to complete. As I issue the explain analyze command and cannot able to wait for output but I send my explain output as :
                                             QUERY PLAN                                              
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Unique  (cost=927576.16..395122387390.13 rows=382659 width=8)
   ->  Nested Loop  (cost=927576.16..360949839832.15 rows=13669019023195 width=8)
         Join Filter: (p.crawled_page_id <> c.source_id)
         ->  Index Scan using idx_page_id on page_content p  (cost=0.00..174214.02 rows=428817 width=8)
         ->  Materialize  (cost=927576.16..1370855.12 rows=31876196 width=4)
               ->  Seq Scan on clause2 c  (cost=0.00..771182.96 rows=31876196 width=4)
(6 rows)


Please guide me how to make the above query run faster as I am not able to do that.


Thanks, Adarsh