On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Bryce Covert <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm seeing a slow running query. After some optimization with indexes, it > appears that the query plan is correct, it's just slow. Running the query > twice, not surprisingly, is very fast, due to OS caching or shared_buffers > caching. If the parameters for the query are different, however, the query > is slow until run a second time. In our usage pattern, this query must run > fast the first time it runs. > > A couple of general stats: this is a linode machine with a single 3GB DB > with 4GBs of ram. Shared buffers = 1024mb, effective_cache_size=2048MB. We > are running with postgres 9.1. The machine is otherwise dormant when this > query runs. Here is the schema: For this kind of diagnostic, you need to include hardware details. OS? Disks? RAID? -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance