Re: SELECT's take a long time compared to other DBMS

You forgot that the original poster's query was:
  SELECT * from <table>

This should require a simple table scan.  NO need for stats.
Either the table has not been properly vacuumed or he's got seq_scan
off...

JLL


Nick Fankhauser wrote:
> 
> > Yes I Analyze also, but there was no need to because it was a fresh brand
> > new database.
> 
> This apparently wasn't the source of problem since he did an analyze anyway,
> but my impression was that a fresh brand new database is exactly the
> situation where an analyze is needed- ie: a batch of data has just been
> loaded and stats haven't been collected yet.
> 
> Am I mistaken?
> 
> -Nick
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