On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Davenport, Julie <JDavenport@ctcd.edu> wrote:
> When I run the following query in Postgres 8.0, it runs in 61,509.372 ms
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> When I run it in Postgres 8.4, it runs in 397,857.472 ms
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> Here is the query:
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> select
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> course_id AS EXTERNAL_COURSE_KEY,
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> user_id AS EXTERNAL_PERSON_KEY,
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> 'Student' AS ROLE,
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> 'Y' AS AVAILABLE_IND
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> from course_user_link
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> where instructor = false
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> and course_id in
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> (
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> select course_id
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> from course_control
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> where to_char(course_begin_date,'YYYYMMDD') IN (
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'20100412','20100510','20100607','20100712','20100830','20100927','20101025','20101122','20101213','20110110','20110207','20110307'
> )
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> and course_delivery LIKE 'O%'
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> and course_cross_section IS NULL
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> )
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> and user_id not in (select user_id from instr_as_stutemp)
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> (table instr_as_stutemp has just one column and only 4 rows)
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> What new feature of Postgres 8.4 would be making the query run so much more
> slowly? Is there a better way to rewrite the query for 8.4 to make it run
> faster?
another common problem following upgrades are locale issues -- what is
your setting for lc_collate?
merlin