Yes. The only difference between the two selects was that the index on the table in question was dropped. As far as I know, that was the only partial index on there, although since it's a test db, I could probably go in and experiment on a few more if needed.
This problem may have already been solved; I'm using an older version of Postgres; 8.1.3. My boss has requested that it not be upgraded just yet, however, so I'm stuck with it for the moment.
Richard Huxton <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Andrew Edson wrote:
> I apologize about the CC; I thought I had done so.
no problem
> There are fourteen (14) distinct values in rcrd_cd. And I don't know
> if this counts as something odd, but I got the following values by
> doing a vacuum full analyze, then running the set with index,
> dropping index, running set without.
Might want to do ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN rcrd_cd SET STATISTICS =
14 (or a few more than that if you think it might be useful) - won't
help you with this though.
So - are you saying that with these two queries...
>> attest=# select count(*) from ptrans where rcrd_cd = '0A';
>> 6701655
>> attest=# select count(*) from ptrans where rcrd_cd = '0A';
>> 204855
...the only difference is that you've dropped an index?
Because that's just strange - and I don't think it's anything you're doing.
Do you have other partial indexes for different values of rcrd_cd, and
do they have similar problems? If this can be reproduced it might point
to something odd with bitmap scans.
Oh, remind me what version of PostgreSQL you're running?
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