On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Navaneethan R <nava@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have 10 million records in my postgres table.I am running the database in amazon ec2 medium instance. I need to access the last week data from the table. > It takes huge time to process the simple query.So, i throws time out exception error. > > query is : > select count(*) from dealer_vehicle_details where modified_on between '2012-10-01' and '2012-10-08' and dealer_id=270001; > > After a lot of time it responds 1184 as count > > what are the ways i have to follow to increase the performance of this query? > > The insertion also going parallel since the daily realtime updation. > > what could be the reason exactly for this lacking performace? can you send explain analyze? also table structure? merlin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance