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Re: Query performance help with 'shadow table' approach.

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On 14 Sep 2011, at 20:45, Brian Fehrle wrote:

>> That is only about 1/30th of your table. I don't think a seqscan makes sense here unless your data is distributed badly.
>> 
> Yeah the more I look at it, the more I think it's postgres _thinking_ that it's faster to do a seqential scan. I'll be playing with the random_page_cost that Ondrej suggested, and schedule a time where I can do some explain analyzes (production server and all).

Before you do that, turn off seqscans (there's a session option for that) and see if index scans are actually faster.

Alban Hertroys

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