Hi all,

i am trying to move my app from M$sql to PGsql, but i need a bit of help :)


on M$sql, i had certain tables that was made as follow (sorry pseudo code)

contab_y
   date
   amt
   uid


contab_yd
  date
  amt
  uid

contab_ymd
  date
  amt 
  uid


and so on..

this was used to "solidify" (aggregate..btw sorry for my terrible english) the 
data on it..

so basically, i get

contab_y
date = 2010
amt = 100
uid = 1

contab_ym
  date = 2010-01
  amt = 10
  uid = 1
----
  date = 2010-02
  amt = 90
  uid = 1


contab_ymd
   date=2010-01-01
   amt = 1
   uid = 1
----
blabla


in that way, when i need to do a query for a long ranges  (ie: 1 year) i just 
take the rows that are contained to contab_y
if i need to got a query for a couple of days, i can go on ymd, if i need to 
get some data for the other timeframe, i can do some cool intersection between 
the different table using some huge (but fast) queries.


Now, the matter is that this design is hard to mantain, and the tables are 
difficult to check

what i have try is to go for a "normal" approach, using just a table that 
contains all the data, and some proper indexing.
The issue is that this table can contains easilly 100M rows :)
that's why the other guys do all this work to speed-up queryes splitting data 
on different table and precalculating the sums.


I am here to ask for an advice to PGsql experts: 
what do you think i can do to better manage this situation? 
there are some other cases where i can take a look at? maybe some 
documentation, or some technique that i don't know?
any advice is really appreciated!










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