Re: [dspam-users] Postgres vs. MySQL

Casey Allen Shobe wrote the following on 11/27/04 03:11 :

>I posted about this a couple days ago on dspam-dev...
>
>I am using DSpam with PostgreSQL, and like you discovered the horrible
>performance.  The reason is because the default PostgreSQL query planner
>settings determine that a sequence scan will be more efficient than an
>index scan, which is wrong.  To correct this behavior, adjust the query
>planner settings for the appropriate table/column with this command:
>
>alter table "dspam_token_data" alter "token" set statistics 200; analyze;
>
>Let me know if it help you.  It worked wonders for me.
>
>  
>
In tum mode, this could help too (I'm currently testing it) :
CREATE INDEX id_token_data_sumhits ON dspam_token_data ((spam_hits + 
innocent_hits));

Indeed each UPDATE on dspam_token_data in TUM is done with :
WHERE ... AND spam_hits + innocent_hits < 50