Re: how could select id=xx so slow?

explain analyze INSERT INTO vote_content ( thing1_id, thing2_id, name, date) VALUES (1,1, E'1', '2012-07-12T12:34:29.926863+00:00'::timestamptz)

                                       QUERY PLAN                                        

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 Insert  (cost=0.00..0.01 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=79.610..79.610 rows=0 loops=1)

   ->  Result  (cost=0.00..0.01 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=0.058..0.060 rows=1 loops=1)

 Total runtime: 79.656 ms

it is a table with 50 million rows, so not sure if it is too large... I have attached the schema below:

You have eight indexes on that table according to the schema you showed. Three of them cover three columns. Those indexes are going to be expensive to update; frankly I'm amazed it's that FAST to update them when they're that big.

Use pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size('index_name')) to get the index sizes and compare to the pg_relation_size of the table. It might be informative.

You may see some insert performance benefits with a non-100% fill factor on the indexes, but with possible performance costs to index scans.

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Craig Ringer