I've just copied a database from one linux machine to another.
"Fast" machine is CentOS 5.5, running postgres 9.0.0 64 bit
"Slow" machine is Red Hat 5.5 running postgres 9.0.2 64 bit.
Here's the query:
explain analyze select sentenceid from sentences where sentenceid = any ( array(select sentenceid from sentences where docid = any(array[696374,696377])))
on the fast machine this is the explain:
"Bitmap Heap Scan on sentences (cost=924.41..964.47 rows=10 width=8) (actual time=0.748..0.800 rows=41 loops=1)"
" Recheck Cond: (sentenceid = ANY ($0))"
" InitPlan 1 (returns $0)"
" -> Bitmap Heap Scan on sentences (cost=12.93..879.27 rows=220 width=8) (actual time=0.199..0.446 rows=41 loops=1)"
" Recheck Cond: (docid = ANY ('{696374,696377}'::bigint[]))"
" -> Bitmap Index Scan on sentdocs (cost=0.00..12.87 rows=220 width=0) (actual time=0.134..0.134 rows=41 loops=1)"
" Index Cond: (docid = ANY ('{696374,696377}'::bigint[]))"
" -> Bitmap Index Scan on pk_sentences (cost=0.00..45.14 rows=10 width=0) (actual time=0.741..0.741 rows=41 loops=1)"
" Index Cond: (sentenceid = ANY ($0))"
"Total runtime: 0.925 ms"
And on the slow machine:
"Seq Scan on sentences (cost=10000000608.90..10000445893.60 rows=10 width=8) (actual time=2679.412..6372.393 rows=41 loops=1)"
" Filter: (sentenceid = ANY ($0))"
" InitPlan 1 (returns $0)"
" -> Bitmap Heap Scan on sentences (cost=10.73..608.90 rows=152 width=8) (actual time=0.044..0.076 rows=41 loops=1)"
" Recheck Cond: (docid = ANY ('{696374,696377}'::integer[]))"
" -> Bitmap Index Scan on sentdocs (cost=0.00..10.69 rows=152 width=0) (actual time=0.037..0.037 rows=41 loops=1)"
" Index Cond: (docid = ANY ('{696374,696377}'::integer[]))"
"Total runtime: 6372.468 ms"
The configurations were identical initially, I've changed those on the slow machine but to no avail.
there is an index on sentences on the docid in both systems.
I'm at quite a loss as to how/why this is occurring and what to do about it.
I tried disabling seqscan on the slow machine but that also made no difference.
Any help/ideas much appreciated.
Matthias