Douglas Alan escribió: > Hey, while I have you on the line, might you be so kind as to explain why > this query is so slow? Shouldn't it just fetch the first row in the table? > What could be faster than that? > > explain analyze select * from maindb_astobject limit 1; > > > > QUERY > > PLAN > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Limit (cost=0.00..0.04 rows=1 width=78) (actual time=8091.962..8091.965 > > rows=1 loops=1) > > -> Seq Scan on maindb_astobject (cost=0.00..3358190.12 rows=75426912 > > width=78) (actual time=8091.955..8091.955 rows=1 loops=1) > > Total runtime: 8092.040 ms > > (3 rows) Maybe there's a bunch of pages with only dead tuples at the start of the table? Maybe a lot of empty pages at the start of the table (If this is 8.3 you have to consider sync_seqscan as well) -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
