Hi folks,
I have a simple table that keeps track of a user's access history.
It has a a few fields, but the important ones are:
- ownerId: the user's ID, a int8
- accessTS: the timestamp of the record
The table right now is small, only 1942 records.
The user I test with (10015) has only 89 entries.
What I want is to get the last 5 accesses of a user:
SELECT * FROM triphistory WHERE ownerId = 10015 ORDER BY accessTS DESC LIMIT 5
If I create a composite index *and* analyze:
create index IDX_TRIP_HISTORY_OWNER_ACCESS_TS on tripHistory (ownerId, accessTS);
ANALYZE triphistory;
It takes 0.091s (!):
perpedes_db=# EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT * FROM triphistory WHERE ownerId = 10015 ORDER BY accessTS DESC LIMIT 5;
QUERY PLAN
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Limit (cost=0.00..7.99 rows=5 width=106) (actual time=0.024..0.042 rows=5 loops=1)
-> Index Scan Backward using idx_trip_history_owner_access_ts on triphistory (cost=0.00..142.20 rows=89 width=106)
(actualtime=0.021..0.034 rows=5 loops=1)
Index Cond: (ownerid = 10015)
Total runtime: 0.091 ms
(4 rows)
BTW, this is after several runs of the query, shouldn't all this stuff be in memory?
This is not a fast machine, but this seems rather excessive, no?
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Dimi Paun <dimi@lattica.com>
Lattica, Inc.