Re: Noobie: Problems with a query

> > > First of all you should try: VACUUM ANALYZE;
> > What was that supposed to tell me?
> It was supposed to make sure that the planner had reliable data from
> which to plan your query.

Ok.

> When sending a query plan to the lists, you want to do an explain analyze
> so that we can see what really happens when your query is executed as
> well as what the planner thinks is going to happen.

so 'EXPLAIN ANALYZE your_query' gives more information that just EXPLAIN?

> The plan for your query had a fairly small number of rows for it to take
> 12 seconds to run the query. This is one hint that an analyze might not
> have been done.

Well, I've been doing all my work through pgAdminII as it's been alot easier
for me in learning.  PG has alot of really obscure commands and I'm still
trying to get them all down.
In any case, I did 'vacuum' and 'vacuum analyze' there but neither seemed to
improve matters.  However, this morning, after I did 'vacuum analyze' from
the PG command prompt, I re-ran the query and the rows came back in
milliseconds.  I'll have to see if the rows come back that quickly in pgAdmin
and, if it does, that tells me there is something wrong with the way pgAdmin
does the 'vacuum' and 'vacuum analyze'.  If the rows don't come back that
fast, then it'll tell me that there is *alot* of overhead when using pgAdmin to
run queries.

Thank you and Nabil for your help and suggestions.  I'll report back my findings
wrt pgAdminII after I get home this evening.

thnx,
Christoph