Re: Very long running query

On 10 Apr 2001, Konstantinos Agouros wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a query running for 97hours now and I am wondering if this can be made
> any faster.
> The Query is:
> insert into dailyreport select timestamp(date '1-8-2001'),a.category,'Observed',sum(b.count) as count from
websensebycata, netscapereduce b where a.url = b.url and a.action='Observed' and a.datum='1-8-2001' and
b.datum='1-8-2001'and not exists (select url from urlcounts where urlcounts.url=b.url) group by a.category; 
>
> The tables websensebycat and netscapereduce do have indices on it.
> Netscapereduce has 60020 entries and websensebycat has around 6000 entries.
> Urlcounts has 55 entries. The whole thing is running postgres 7.1RC2.
> Anybody has a tip to accelerate this. The whole thing is running on a E250 with
> 64Bit Solaris7.

what does explain command show about your query?

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