Hello everyone, I am having an issue where WMS GetCapabilities (and other WMS requests) are running very slow for PostGIS-stored layers with a time dimension enabled. Note that I DO have an index on the database field for my time dimension. On the surface, this seems similar to the thread found in: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/WMS-request-getcapabilities-takes-a-loooooooooooooong-time-to-return-td5003095.html but, again, I ** DO ** have my time field indexed. What I am seeing looks like geoserver (or geotools) is not even asking for distinct or max/min on the time field in some cases. Here is the setup: 1. Geoserver Version: 2.3.3 running on ubuntu with Postgres 9.1 and postgis 1.5 2. Simple database table "latest" with geometry point and time field/dimension called "timestamp". 3. About 15 distinct timestamps with approx 20,000 points at each timestamp for +/- 300,000 rows. Here is what I am seeing: 1. Calling GetCapabilities when only a layer using "latest" table (I will call this NO SQL VIEW) is enabled takes many seconds. Enabling GEOTOOLS level debugging shows an SQL statement of SELECT "timestamp" FROM "public"."latest" when the database is being queried to gather the range of available times. It does NOT look like the query is asking for DISTINCT timestamps at all ... but instead it is asking for ALL of them. Is that correct? 2. Calling GetCapabilities when only a layer using "latest" table is enabled ... but that layer is defined via a SQL VIEW ... returns extremely fast! This layer is exactly the same using exactly the same data and store setup as the NON-SQL-VIEW layer in #1, but just with a view defined. It returns all of the same timestamps. In fact, I am just doing a SELECT * from "latest" as my SQL VIEW ... not even filtering by any viewparams. However, in this case, I see the SQL request for determining the range of available timestamps as SELECT distinct("timestamp") FROM ... so it looks like the database is being queried only for distinct timestamps, not ALL of them as #1 appears. 3. When calling GetMap on the NO SQL VIEW layer in #1 above, but without specifying the time (meaning it will default to the most recent time and has to search the database for it), I again see SELECT "timestamp" FROM "public"."latest" as the query. It does not seem to ask for the MAX. This takes 4 seconds. 4. When calling GetMap on the SQL VIEW version of the layer, again without specifying the time, the SQL statement is SELECT max("timestamp") FROM (SELECT * from latest) as "vtable", so the database is being asked for the MAX timestamp, not all of them. This is sub-second response. 5. I see the same behavior for GetFeatureInfo WMS requests when the time defaults to current. The database has to be searched for the default (most recent) time. The standard NO SQL VIEW layer queries the db without asking for the MAX timestamp, whereas the SQL VIEW version asks for the MAX timestamp. The NO SQL VIEW version takes 4 seconds, whereas the SQL VIEW version is sub-second. Why the difference? Most importantly, is this the expected and/or actual behavior for Postgis-enabled layers without a view defined in geoserver? Is the expected behavior that all times in the table are queried, not distinct and max times as appropriate? Excerpts from my logs are provided below ... numbered according to the descriptions above. I appreciate any help and response on this! Thanks, Mike Grogan SCENARIO #1: GetCapabilities ... NO SQL VIEW 31 Jul 00:22:24 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:22:24 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - SELECT "timestamp" FROM "public"."latest" 31 Jul 00:22:28 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION SCENARIO #2: GetCapabilities ... SQL VIEW 31 Jul 00:21:11 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:21:11 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:21:11 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:21:11 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:21:11 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:21:11 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:21:11 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:21:11 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - Gathering sql view result structure: select * from (SELECT * from latest) as "vtable" where 1 = 0 31 Jul 00:21:11 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:21:11 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:21:11 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - SELECT distinct("timestamp") FROM (SELECT * from latest) as "vtable" 31 Jul 00:21:11 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION SCENARIO #3 ... GetMap ... time not specified (use default/current) ... NO SQL VIEW 31 Jul 00:32:47 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:32:47 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - SELECT "timestamp" FROM "public"."latest" 31 Jul 00:32:51 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION SCENARIO #4 ... GetMap ... time not specified (use default/current) ... SQL VIEW 31 Jul 00:30:57 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:30:57 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:30:57 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:30:57 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:30:57 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:30:57 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:30:57 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:30:57 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - Gathering sql view result structure: select * from (SELECT * from latest) as "vtable" where 1 = 0 31 Jul 00:30:57 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:30:57 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:30:57 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:30:57 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:30:57 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:30:57 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:30:57 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:30:57 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:30:57 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - Gathering sql view result structure: select * from (SELECT * from latest) as "vtable" where 1 = 0 31 Jul 00:30:57 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:30:57 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:30:57 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - SELECT max("timestamp") FROM (SELECT * from latest) as "vtable" 31 Jul 00:30:57 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION SCENARIO #5 ... Seeing the same behavior for GetFeatureInfo request when time not specified 31 Jul 00:35:25 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:35:25 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - SELECT "timestamp" FROM "public"."latest" 31 Jul 00:35:29 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:36:31 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:36:31 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:36:31 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:36:31 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:36:31 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:36:31 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:36:31 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:36:31 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - Gathering sql view result structure: select * from (SELECT * from latest) as "vtable" where 1 = 0 31 Jul 00:36:31 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:36:31 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:36:31 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:36:31 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:36:31 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:36:31 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:36:31 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:36:31 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:36:31 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - Gathering sql view result structure: select * from (SELECT * from latest) as "vtable" where 1 = 0 31 Jul 00:36:31 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:36:31 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CREATE CONNECTION 31 Jul 00:36:31 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - SELECT max("timestamp") FROM (SELECT * from latest) as "vtable" 31 Jul 00:36:31 DEBUG [org.geotools.jdbc] - CLOSE CONNECTION