Jeremiah Jahn kirjutas K, 26.11.2003 kell 22:14: > I was wondering if there is something I can do that would act similar to > a index over more than one table. > > I have about 3 million people in my DB at the moment, they all have > roles, and many of them have more than one name. > > for example, a Judge will only have one name, but a Litigant could have > multiple aliases. Things go far to slow when I do a query on a judge > named smith.
If you dont need all the judges named smith you could try to use LIMIT. Have you run ANALYZE ? Why does DB think that there is only one judge with name like SMITH% ? ------------- Hannu P.S. Always send EXPLAIN ANALYZE output if asking for advice on [PERFORM] ------------- Hannu ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
