Re: Poor Performance on Postgres 8.0

Hi Tom,

     I dropped the primary key constraint and ran the explain analyze on
the same query and here is what i get seq scans on both the tables ,
still doesnt make use of the index on common.attribute table .


                                                         QUERY PLAN

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Nested Loop  (cost=0.00..5609.19 rows=1 width=104) (actual
time=11.875..319.358 rows=1 loops=1)
   Join Filter: ("outer".fknamestringid = "inner".stringid)
   ->  Seq Scan on attribute attribute0_  (cost=0.00..5604.76 rows=1
width=104) (actual time=11.541..318.649 rows=2 loops=1)
         Filter: (numericvalue = 775.0)
   ->  Seq Scan on string text1_  (cost=0.00..4.41 rows=1 width=4)
(actual time=0.277..0.319 rows=1 loops=2)
         Filter: (value = 'squareFeet'::text)
 Total runtime: 319.496 ms


Tom Lane wrote:

>Pallav Kalva <pkalva@deg.cc> writes:
>
>
>>>begin;
>>>alter table common.string drop constraint pk_string_stringid;
>>>explain analyze ... same query ...
>>>rollback;
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>       what do u mean by rollback exactly ? i can drop the pk constraint
>>and run explain analyze and see how it behaves.
>>
>>
>
>The point of the rollback is that you don't really make the pk
>constraint go away.  It is gone from the perspective of the EXPLAIN,
>but after you rollback it's back again.  Easier than rebuilding it...
>
>            regards, tom lane
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