Re: Sorting performance vs. MySQL

Op 22 feb 2010, om 20:07 heeft Yang Zhang het volgende geschreven:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Alban Hertroys
> <dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl> wrote:
>> On 22 Feb 2010, at 19:35, Yang Zhang wrote:
>>
>>> I also wouldn't have imagined an external merge-sort as being very
>>
>>
>> Where's that external merge-sort coming from? Can you show an
>> explain analyze?
>
> I just assumed that the "Sort" in the EXPLAIN output meant an external
> merge-sort, given that the table has over 50 million tuples and is
> over 3GB, *and* there is no index on the sort key:
>
> tpcc=# explain select * from metarelcloud_transactionlog order by
> transactionid;
>                                                   QUERY PLAN
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sort  (cost=8408637.34..8534662.95 rows=50410244 width=17)
>   Sort Key: a.transactionid
>   ->  Seq Scan on metarelcloud_transactionlog a
> (cost=0.00..925543.44 rows=50410244 width=17)
> (3 rows)
>
> Anyway, I added the INDEX as suggested by Frank, but it's been 20
> minutes and it's still running. With the index, EXPLAIN says:
>
> tpcc=# explain select * from metarelcloud_transactionlog order by
> transactionid;
>                                                   QUERY PLAN
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Index Scan using i_transactionid on metarelcloud_transactionlog
> (cost=0.00..4453076.81 rows=50410164 width=44)
> (1 row)
>

Use EXPLAIN ANALYZE to see how the query is executed, gives you more
details.


>> If your work-mem is too low there's a good chance that Postgres has
>> to use your disks for sorting, which will obviously be quite slow.
>
> Relative to the non-terminating 80-minute-so-far sort, Unix sort runs
> much faster (on the order of several minutes).

Make sure your index does fit into memory, what's the size of the index?


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