[PERFORM] browsing table with 2 million records

2005-10-26 Thread aurora
I am running Postgre 7.4 on FreeBSD. The main table have 2 million record (we would like to do at least 10 mil or more). It is mainly a FIFO structure with maybe 200,000 new records coming in each day that displace the older records. We have a GUI that let user browser through the record page by p

Re: [PERFORM] browsing table with 2 million records

2005-10-26 Thread aurora
>>   select * from table order by date limit 25 offset 0 > Do you have an index on the date column?  Can you post an EXPLAIN > ANALYZE for the slow query? Wow! Now that I look again there are actually 2 date fields. One is indexed and one is not. Order by was done on the column without index. Usi