Re: [PERFORM] indexes ignored when querying the master table

2011-05-10 Thread Thomas Hägi
hi florian sorry for the late reply - it took almost a day to dump & reload the data into 9.1b1. how can i get postgres to use the indexes when querying the master table? I believe that this is a new feature in PostgreSQL 9.1 ("Allow inheritance table queries to return meaningfully-sorted r

Re: [PERFORM] indexes ignored when querying the master table

2011-05-09 Thread Greg Smith
On 05/06/2011 05:13 PM, Thomas Hägi wrote: the query "SELECT * FROM data.logs ORDER BY re_timestamp DESC LIMIT 100" does use seq scans on all tables instead of using the existing indexes which takes ages. when issuing the the same query to one of the child tables directly ("SELECT * FROM data.l

Re: [PERFORM] indexes ignored when querying the master table

2011-05-09 Thread Florian Weimer
* Thomas Hägi: > how can i get postgres to use the indexes when querying the master > table? I believe that this is a new feature in PostgreSQL 9.1 ("Allow inheritance table queries to return meaningfully-sorted results"). -- Florian Weimer BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://w

[PERFORM] indexes ignored when querying the master table

2011-05-08 Thread Thomas Hägi
i have around 25mio records of data distributed yearly over 9 child tables (data.logs_20xx) that inherit from the master table data.logs. the tables are partitioned using the field "re_timestamp", which has btree indexes defined on all tables. the query "SELECT * FROM data.logs ORDER BY re_tim