On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 08:07:35 +0200, Andre Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Traffic data are inserted every 5 minutes with the actual datetime >of the transaction, thatswhy the table should be physically order by time_stamp.
So I'd expect a correlation of nearly 1. Why do your statistics show a value of -0.479749? A negative correlation is a sign of descending sort order, and correlation values closer to 0 indicate poor correspondence between column values and tuple positions. Could this be the effect of initial data loading? Are there any updates or deletions in your traffic table? >To answer Manfreds questions: >> Andre, what hardware is this running on? What are the values of >> shared_buffers, random_page_cost, effective_cache_size, ... ? Could >> you show us the result of >> >> SELECT * FROM pg_stats >> WHERE tablename = "tbl_traffic" AND attname = "time_stamp"; ^ ^ ^ ^ Oops, these should have been single quotes. It's too hot here these days :-) >sort_mem = 32000 >shared_buffers = 13000 Personally I would set them to lower values, but if you have good reasons ... >#effective_cache_size = 1000 # default in 8k pages This is definitely too low. With 512MB or more I tend to set this to ca. 80% of available RAM. Use top and free to find hints for good values. Servus Manfred ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html