Re: [PERFORM] Problem with large query

2004-09-10 Thread Adam Sah
by the way, this reminds me: I just ran a performance study at a company doing an oracle-to-postgres conversion, and FYI converting from numeric and decimal to integer/bigint/real saved roughly 3x on space and 2x on performance. Obviously, YMMV. adam Tom Lane wrote: Marc Cousin <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [PERFORM] Problem with large query

2004-09-08 Thread Marc Cousin
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 16:56, you wrote: > Marc Cousin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The query has been generated by business objects ... i'ill try to suggest to the > > developpers to remove this constant (if they can)... > > The fields used by the sort are of type numeric(6,0) or (10,0

Re: [PERFORM] Problem with large query

2004-09-08 Thread Tom Lane
Marc Cousin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The query has been generated by business objects ... i'ill try to suggest to the > developpers to remove this constant (if they can)... > The fields used by the sort are of type numeric(6,0) or (10,0) ... > Could it be better if the fields were integer or

Re: [PERFORM] Problem with large query

2004-09-08 Thread Marc Cousin
The query has been generated by business objects ... i'ill try to suggest to the developpers to remove this constant (if they can)... The fields used by the sort are of type numeric(6,0) or (10,0) ... Could it be better if the fields were integer or anything else ? On Wednesday 08 September 2004

Re: [PERFORM] Problem with large query

2004-09-08 Thread Tom Lane
Marc Cousin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having trouble with a (quite big) query, and can't find a way to make it > faster. Seems like it might help if the thing could use a HashAggregate instead of sort/group. Numeric is not hashable, so having those TO_NUMBER constants in GROUP BY destroy