My table is having data like below with 100M records (contains all dummy data). I am having btree index on column ("field"). *While searching for any text from that column takes longer (more than 1 minute).*
user Id field d848f466-5e12-46e7-acf4-e12aff592241 Northern Arkansas College 24c32757-e6a8-4dbd-aac7-1efd867156ce female 6e225c57-c1d1-48a5-b9aa-513223efc81b 1.0, 3.67, 3.67, 4.67, 7.0, 3.0 088c6342-a240-45a7-9d12-e0e707292031 Weber b05088cf-cba6-4bd7-8f8f-1469226874d0 addd#$e...@aaa.com Table and index are created using following query. create table fields(user_id varchar(64), field varchar(64)); CREATE INDEX index_field ON public.fields USING btree (field); Search Query: EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) select * from fields where field='Mueller'; Bitmap Heap Scan on fields (cost=72.61..10069.32 rows=2586 width=55) (actual time=88.017..65358.548 rows=31882 loops=1) Recheck Cond: ((field)::text = 'Mueller'::text) Heap Blocks: exact=31403 Buffers: shared hit=2 read=31492 -> Bitmap Index Scan on index_field (cost=0.00..71.96 rows=2586 width=0) (actual time=55.960..55.960 rows=31882 loops=1) Index Cond: ((field)::text = 'Mueller'::text) Buffers: shared read=91 Planning Time: 0.331 ms Execution Time: 65399.314 ms Any suggestions for improvement? Best Regards, Mayank