Re: test / live environment, major performance difference

> From: Christo Du Preez
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 2:38 AM
>
> Where do I set the planner settings or are you reffering to
> settings in postgres.conf that may affect the planner?
>

Yes I'm reffering to settings in postgres.conf.  I'm wondering if
enable_indexscan or something got turned off on the server for some reason.
Here is a description of those settings:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/runtime-config-query.html

So when you move data from the laptop to the server, I see that your script
correctly runs an analyze after the load, so have you run analyze on the
fast laptop lately?  Hopefully running analyze wouldn't make the planner
choose a worse plan on the laptop, but if we are trying to get things
consistant between the laptop and server, that is something I would try.

If the consistancy problem really is a problem of the planner not using
index scans on the server, then if you can, please post the table definition
for the table with a million rows and an EXPLAIN ANALYZE of a query which
selects a few rows from the table.

Dave