Re: Simple queries take forever to run

Stephan Szabo wrote:

>On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Michael Guerin wrote:
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>>I'm running into some performance problems trying to execute simple
>>queries.
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>>postgresql version 7.3.3
>>.conf params changed from defaults.
>>shared_buffers = 64000
>>sort_mem = 64000
>>fsync = false
>>effective_cache_size = 400000
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>>ex. query: select * from x where id in (select id from y);
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>>There's an index on each table for id.  SQL Server takes <1s to return,
>>postgresql doesn't return at all, neither does explain analyze.
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>IN(subquery) is known to run poorly in 7.3.x and earlier.  7.4 is
>generally much better (for reasonably sized subqueries) but in earlier
>versions you'll probably want to convert into an EXISTS or join form.
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Something else seems to be going on, even switching to an exists clause
gives much better but poor performance.
count(*) where exists clause: Postgresql 19s, SQL Server <1s
count(*) where not exists:  23.3s SQL Server 1.5s

SQL Server runs on a dual 1.4 with 4gigs, win2k
Postgresql runs on a quad 900 with 8 gigs, sunos 5.8