On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:47:28 +0800 Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>Just loaded up delicious 7.4b5 and wow... > >> > >>sort_mem 8192: 137038ms [lots of tmp file activity] > >>sort_mem 256000: 83109ms > > > 1. A full ANALYZE > 2. A delete all from pg_statistic > I had previously analyze'd before I ran those numbers. But I did it again with and without stats. With: Run 1 Time: 80157.21 ms Run 2 Time: 80763.59 ms Killed statistics: Time: 80571.71 ms Time: 80759.18 ms Chances are it is going to seq scan regardless so the stats are rather useless. Perhaps in other scenarios it would help. -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jefftrout.com/ http://www.stuarthamm.net/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match