[PERFORM] Performance problem with pg8.0

2005-11-06 Thread Jeroen van Iddekinge
Hello, I have some strange performance problems with quering a table.It has 5282864, rows and contains the following columns : id ,no,id_words,position,senpos and sentence all are integer non null. Index on : * no * no,id_words * id_words * senpos, sentence, no) *

[PERFORM] sequence scan on PK

2005-05-08 Thread Jeroen van Iddekinge
Hi, I understand that when a table contains only a few rows it is better to do a sequence scan than an index scan. But is this also for a table with 99 records? A table contains id integer (primary key) namevarchar(70)

Re: [PERFORM] sequence scan on PK

2005-05-08 Thread Jeroen van Iddekinge
You should lower random_page_cost to make the planner choose an index scan vs sequential scan. Yes , it was a bit to high (18) so a lowered it. It speeded up some pages for about 5%. Reg. Jer ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and

Re: [PERFORM] sequence scan on PK

2005-05-08 Thread Jeroen van Iddekinge
Matteo Beccati wrote: Hi, Yes , it was a bit to high (18) so a lowered it. It speeded up some pages for about 5%. 18? The default is 4 if I can remember correctly. I wonder if your db has ever seen an index scan ;) I was expermenting how much some setting influence has on the perfomance of