Adam Sherman writes: 

> On 03/18/2002 04:17:28 PM -0600, Bruce Cannon wrote:
>> Preliminary suggestion is to create a view within the database.  This 
>> will
>> likely work, but will effectively double the size of my table.  We have
>> plenty of server (dual PIII/866 with all the trimmings) but if there's
>> another way I'd sure like to find it.
> 
> It will not increase the size of the able, as there is no data 
> duplication. You are effectively translating the incoming query into the 
> proper select statement on the fly.

I'd be very suprised is pg's query optimizer will be able to optimized a 
select view in this case to anything other than a table scan, as opposed to 
an index lookup.  This is not a practical solution. 


-- 
Sam 


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