On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 4:46 AM, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Mohan Krishnan <mohangk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hello folks, >> >> I have a table of about 700k rows in Postgres 9.3.3, which has the >> following structure: >> >> Columns: >> content_body - text >> publish_date - timestamp without time zone >> published - boolean >> >> Indexes: >> "articles_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id) >> "article_text_gin" gin (article_text) >> "articles_publish_date_id_index" btree (publish_date DESC NULLS >> LAST, id DESC) > > > Your indexes are on columns that are not in the list of columns you gave. > Can you show us the actual table and index definitions? Sorry about that, here is the table and the index definitions Table "public.articles" Column | Type | Modifiers ----------------------+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------------------- id | integer | not null default nextval('articles_id_seq'::regclass) title | text | not null content_body | text | publish_date | timestamp without time zone | created_at | timestamp without time zone | not null published | boolean | updated_at | timestamp without time zone | not null category_id | integer | not null article_text | tsvector | Indexes: "articles_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id) "article_text_gin" gin (article_text) "articles_category_id_index" btree (category_id) "articles_created_at" btree (created_at) "articles_publish_date_id_index" btree (publish_date DESC NULLS LAST, id DESC) "articles_published_index" btree (published) > >> -> Index Scan using articles_pkey on articles >> (cost=0.42..462150.49 rows=3573 width=1298) (actual time=2.055..9.711 >> rows=10 loops=1) >> Filter: (article_text @@ '''in_index'''::tsquery) > > ... > >> >> -> Index Scan using articles_pkey on articles >> (cost=0.42..462150.49 rows=3573 width=1298) (actual >> time=5633.672..5633.672 rows=0 loops=1) >> Filter: (article_text @@ '''not_in_index'''::tsquery) > > > Those estimates are way off, and it is not clear why they would be. Have > you analyzed your table recently? Yes I have analyzed them and rerun the queries - there is no difference. What more debugging information can should I look at to determine why the estimates are way off ? > Cheers, > > Jeff -- Mohan -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance