On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 03:10:32PM -0500, Tony Caduto wrote: > Hi, > I have a client who has a 25 million row table that is used to keep > track of financial security info. > So far it has worked great, but today someone wanted to get all the tax > codes(there are lot's of dupes) from the table. > So we tried this: > > select DISTINCT tax_code from warehouse.sec_trans > We let this run for 1/2 hour or so and canceled it.
What plan did it want to use (EXPLAIN query)? What version of PostgreSQL? How many results are you expecting? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
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