On Wednesday 08 June 2011 19:47, tv@xxxxxxxx wrote: > Have you tried to create a composite index on those two columns? Not sure > if that helps but I'd try that. > > Tomas Do you mean create index tdiag_index2 ON tdiag(diag_id, create_time); Should this be in addition to or instead of the single index on create_time? I must be doing something really wrong to get this to happen: symstream2=> select count(*) from tdiag where create_time <= '2011-05-23 03:51:00.131597+0'; count ------- 0 (1 row) symstream2=> explain analyze select count(*) from tdiag where create_time <= '2011-05-23 03:51:00.131597+0'; QUERY PLAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Aggregate (cost=863867.21..863867.22 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=58994.078..58994.080 rows=1 loops=1) -> Seq Scan on tdiag (cost=0.00..844188.68 rows=7871413 width=0) (actual time=58994.063..58994.063 rows=0 loops=1) Filter: (create_time <= '2011-05-23 13:51:00.131597+10'::timestamp with time zone) Total runtime: 58994.172 ms (4 rows) symstream2=> \d tdiag Table "public.tdiag" Column | Type | Modifiers -------------+--------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------- diag_id | integer | not null default nextval(('diag_id_seq'::text)::regclass) create_time | timestamp with time zone | default now() diag_time | timestamp with time zone | not null device_id | integer | fleet_id | integer | customer_id | integer | module | character varying | node_kind | smallint | diag_level | smallint | message | character varying | not null default ''::character varying options | text | tag | character varying | not null default ''::character varying Indexes: "tdiag_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (diag_id) "tdiag_create_time" btree (create_time) -- Anthony Shipman | Programming is like sex: One mistake and Anthony.Shipman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | you're providing support for a lifetime. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance