Re: Optimizing Query

Did you run VACUUM ANALYZE after running CLUSTER?

Michael Fork - CCNA - MCP - A+
Network Support - Toledo Internet Access - Toledo Ohio

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Justin Long wrote:

> Ok, now I have another question... it doesn't seem to be accessing the index.
> 
> explain select k.kbid,k.title from knowledge k , kbwords w0 , kbwords w1 
> WHERE ((k.kbid=w0.kbid and w0.wordid=42743) AND (k.kbid=w1.kbid and 
> w1.wordid=85369))
> 
> NOTICE:  QUERY PLAN:
> 
> Merge Join  (cost=32339.30..35496.97 rows=19262538 width=24)
>    ->  Merge Join  (cost=16530.24..16668.77 rows=233274 width=20)
>          ->  Sort  (cost=15809.06..15809.06 rows=8257 width=4)
>                ->  Seq Scan on kbwords w1  (cost=0.00..15271.85 rows=8257 
> width=4)
>          ->  Sort  (cost=721.18..721.18 rows=2825 width=16)
>                ->  Seq Scan on knowledge k  (cost=0.00..559.25 rows=2825 
> width=16)
>    ->  Sort  (cost=15809.06..15809.06 rows=8257 width=4)
>          ->  Seq Scan on kbwords w0  (cost=0.00..15271.85 rows=8257 width=4)
> 
> Note the sequential scans... there is a wordindex where w0.wordid=42743... 
> why isn't it doing an indexscan? wouldn't that be more efficient?
> 
> Justin
> 
> 
> At 04:45 PM 3/5/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >Yes.
> >
> > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 04:07:57PM -0500, Bruce Momjian allegedly wrote:
> > > > Have you tried VACUUM ANALYZE and CLUSTER?
> > >
> > > I assume CLUSTER still drops all indexes except the one you're clustering
> > > on?
> > >
> > > Mathijs
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