On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 09:02:52AM -0700, Abu Mushayeed wrote:
> I have an interesting problem. I have the following query that ran ok on
> Monday and Tuesday and it has been running ok since I have been at this
> job. I have seen it to be IO intensive, but since Wednesday it has become
> CPU intensive. Database wise fresh data has been put into the tables,
> vacuumed & analyzed, no other parameter has been modified.
What Postgres version is this?
> The query is as follows and it's explain plan is also attached:
Normally EXPLAIN ANALYZE data would be much better than EXPLAIN, but if the
query indeed does not finish, it's not going to help much.
> set enable_nestloop = off;
What's the rationale for this?
> HashAggregate (cost=152555.97..152567.32 rows=267 width=162)
152000 disk page fetches is a bit, but it shouldn't take 24 hours. There's
probably misestimation involved at some point here. Does it really return 267
rows, or many more?
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