Just post the explain analyze output here on the list. There's lots of folks here who can read it. On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Jason Long <mailing.list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes. > This is what I do. > 1. Vacuum full > 2. Reindex force > This is done ever night > > My users complained about a report being slow. > > I grabbed a dump and restored it to my development machine. > > The query worked just fine, but not on the production server. > > I did a vacuum full and then reran the query. Now it performs just as slow > as on the production machine. That is the only change I made. > > I am in the process of trying to figure out the EXPLAIN ANALYZE for both > queries, but I have never had to read this output and I am unfamiliar with > how to find the problem. I will post both here and maybe someone can help > me out. > > > > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 17:02 -0500, Jason Long wrote: > > > I have a query that takes 2 sec if I run it from a freshly restored > dump. If I run a full vacuum on the database it then takes 30 seconds. > > > If you run it a second time after the vacuum full? > > Joshua D. Drake > > > >