On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 08:09, Richard Jones wrote: > Hi, > i have a table of around 3 million rows from which i regularly (twice a second > at the moment) need to select a random row from > > currently i'm doing "order by rand() limit 1" - but i suspect this is > responsible for the large load on my db server - i guess that PG is doing far > too much work just to pick one row.
What datatype is the selected by key? Also, where is rand() defined? Is that a UDF? Could it be that there is a type mismatch? > one way i can think of is to read in all the primary keys from my table, and > select one of the keys at random then directly fetch that row. > > are there any other ways to do this? i need to keep the load down :) > > Thanks, > Richard Are you really in Micronesia? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding." Justice Louis Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v US (1928) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend