Query is sometimes fast and sometimes slow: what could be the reason?

2022-09-14 Thread tiaswin
What could be the reason of a query, which is sometimes fast and sometimes slow (factor >10x)?

(running on a large table).

 

 




Re: Query is sometimes fast and sometimes slow: what could be the reason?

2022-09-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 05:02:07PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> What could be the reason of a query, which is sometimes fast 
> and sometimes slow (factor >10x)?
> (running on a large table).
>  
>  

Lots of possible issues.  Is it using a different query plan ?
Collect a good plan and a bad one and compare, or send both.
Perhaps use autoexplain to do so.

Turn on logging and send as much information as you can as described
here.
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Query_Questions

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or in addition to the html one).

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Justin