Re: "select max/count(id)" not using index

Guten Tag Ryszard Lach,

Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2003 um 11:39 schrieben Sie:

RL> Hi.

RL> I have a table with 24k records and btree index on column 'id'. Is this
RL> normal, that 'select max(id)' or 'select count(id)' causes a sequential
RL> scan? It takes over 24 seconds (on a pretty fast machine):

Yes, that was occasionally discussed on the mailinglists. For the
max(id) you can use instead "SELECT id FROM table ORDER BY id DESC
LIMIT 1"


Christoph Nelles


=>> explain ANALYZE select max(id) from ogloszenia;
RL>                             QUERY PLAN
RL> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
RL>  Aggregate  (cost=3511.05..3511.05 rows=1 width=4) (actual
RL> time=24834.629..24834.629 rows=1 loops=1)
RL>    ->  Seq Scan on ogloszenia  (cost=0.00..3473.04 rows=15204 width=4)
RL> (actual time=0.013..24808.377 rows=16873 loops=1)
RL>  Total runtime: 24897.897 ms

RL> Maybe it's caused by a number of varchar fields in this table? However,
RL> 'id' column is 'integer' and is primary key.

RL> Clustering table on index created on 'id' makes such a queries
RL> many faster, but they still use a sequential scan.

RL> Richard.




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