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On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Alban Hertroys
<dalroi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 22 Feb 2010, at 19:35, Yang Zhang wrote:
>
>> I also wouldn't have imagined an external merge-sort as being very
>
>
> Where's that external merge-sort coming from? Can you show an explain analyze?

I just assumed that the "Sort" in the EXPLAIN output meant an external
merge-sort, given that the table has over 50 million tuples and is
over 3GB, *and* there is no index on the sort key:

tpcc=# explain select * from metarelcloud_transactionlog order by transactionid;
                                                   QUERY PLAN
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sort  (cost=8408637.34..8534662.95 rows=50410244 width=17)
   Sort Key: a.transactionid
   ->  Seq Scan on metarelcloud_transactionlog a
(cost=0.00..925543.44 rows=50410244 width=17)
(3 rows)

Anyway, I added the INDEX as suggested by Frank, but it's been 20
minutes and it's still running. With the index, EXPLAIN says:

tpcc=# explain select * from metarelcloud_transactionlog order by transactionid;
                                                   QUERY PLAN
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Index Scan using i_transactionid on metarelcloud_transactionlog
(cost=0.00..4453076.81 rows=50410164 width=44)
(1 row)

> If your work-mem is too low there's a good chance that Postgres has to use your disks for sorting, which will obviously be quite slow.

Relative to the non-terminating 80-minute-so-far sort, Unix sort runs
much faster (on the order of several minutes).
--
Yang Zhang
http://www.mit.edu/~y_z/

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