On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 13:13:59 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have a little 2-table JOIN, GROUP BY, ORDER BY query that does a sequential > scan on a multi-million row table. I _thought_ I had all the appropriate > indices, but apparently I do not. I was wondering if anyone can spot a way I > can speed up this query. > The query currently takes... *gulp*: 381119.201 ms :( > > There are only 2 tables in the game: user_url and user_url_tag. The latter > has FKs pointing to the former. The sequential scan happens on the latter - > user_url_tag: > > EXPLAIN ANALYZE select DISTINCT userurltag0_.tag as x0_0_, COUNT(*) as x1_0_ > from user_url_tag userurltag0_, user_url userurl1_ WHERE > (((userurl1_.user_id=1 )) AND ((userurltag0_.user_url_id=userurl1_.id ))) > GROUP BY userurltag0_.tag ORDER BY count(*) DESC;
While this isn't a big issue, it looks like DISTINCT is redundant in your query and seems to be adding some extra work. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq