ok, you calculate headline() 19861 times, while you need only 20. Use subselect and will be surprized Oleg On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Matthew Terenzio wrote:
Thanks Tom, Sorry if that last post went over multiple times. I was getting a mailing failure (or so I thought) here is EXPLAIN ANALYZE . I really need to work on my skills at analyzing these: Limit (cost=105505.78..105505.83 rows=20 width=655) (actual time=74806.973..74807.037 rows=20 loops=1) -> Sort (cost=105505.78..105555.44 rows=19861 width=655) (actual time=74806.968..74806.989 rows=20 loops=1) Sort Key: stories."timestamp" -> Nested Loop (cost=0.00..90497.94 rows=19861 width=655) (actual time=720.251..74798.672 rows=680 loops=1) -> Function Scan on q (cost=0.00..12.50 rows=1000 width=32) (actual time=0.013..0.017 rows=1 loops=1) -> Index Scan using description_index on stories (cost=0.00..90.14 rows=20 width=623) (actual time=700.633..63243.713 rows=680 loops=1) Index Cond: (stories.vectors @@ "outer".q) Total runtime: 74847.177 ms
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