Hi everyone, We've just moved our website database from pg 8.4 to pg 9.0 and we found out a very long query (that wasn't that long under 8.4). And I actually can't explain why it's taking so much timeŠ Here it is : EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT "articles_article"."id", "articles_article"."name", "articles_article"."post_date" FROM "articles_article" WHERE ("articles_article"."permis" = true AND "articles_article"."status" = 2 AND "articles_article"."flux_id" = 3107 AND NOT ("articles_article"."id" = 784923 )) ORDER BY "articles_article"."post_date" DESC LIMIT 4; QUERY PLAN --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- Limit (cost=0.00..7737.95 rows=4 width=53) (actual time=440296.783..448149.439 rows=4 loops=1) -> Index Scan Backward using index_articles_post on articles_article (cost=0.00..7233050.00 rows=3739 width=53) (actual time=440296.783..448149.437 rows=4 loops=1) Filter: (permis AND (id <> 784923) AND (status = 2) AND (flux_id = 3107)) Total runtime: 448149.477 ms (4 rows) Then, if I remove the ORDER BY clause, this is much much better : EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT "articles_article"."id", "articles_article"."name", "articles_article"."post_date" FROM "articles_article" WHERE ("articles_article"."permis" = true AND "articles_article"."status" = 2 AND "articles_article"."flux_id" = 3107 AND NOT ("articles_article"."id" = 784923 )) LIMIT 4; QUERY PLAN --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Limit (cost=0.00..8.25 rows=4 width=53) (actual time=1.472..74.679 rows=4 loops=1) -> Index Scan using articles_article_flux_id on articles_article (cost=0.00..7710.04 rows=3739 width=53) (actual time=1.468..74.672 rows=4 loops=1) Index Cond: (flux_id = 3107) Filter: (permis AND (id <> 784923) AND (status = 2)) Total runtime: 74.779 ms (5 rows) Same query under 8.4 : EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT "articles_article"."id", "articles_article"."name", "articles_article"."post_date" FROM "articles_article" WHERE ("articles_article"."permis" = true AND "articles_article"."status" = 2 AND "articles_article"."flux_id" = 3107 AND NOT ("articles_article"."id" = 784923 )) ORDER BY "articles_article"."post_date" DESC LIMIT 4; QUERY PLAN --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Limit (cost=693.11..693.12 rows=4 width=53) (actual time=12.617..12.619 rows=4 loops=1) -> Sort (cost=693.11..693.94 rows=330 width=53) (actual time=12.615..12.616 rows=4 loops=1) Sort Key: post_date Sort Method: top-N heapsort Memory: 25kB -> Index Scan using articles_article_flux_id on articles_article (cost=0.00..688.16 rows=330 width=53) (actual time=0.034..12.255 rows=1072 loops=1) Index Cond: (flux_id = 3107) Filter: (permis AND (id <> 784923) AND (status = 2)) Total runtime: 12.672 ms (8 rows) Would anyone know where this might come from? 448 secondes for a basic SELECT sounds amazing oO Thanks, Gaëtan -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general