Re: [PERFORM] strategies for optimizing read on rather large tables

2005-06-04 Thread PFC
select advert_id from acr_cache where category_id = ? and region_id = ? order by XXX {asc|desc} limit 20; where XXX is one of 5 possible fields, timestamp, timestamp, text, text, numeric Create 5 indexes on ( category_id, region_id, a field ) where a field is one of your 5

Re: [PERFORM] strategies for optimizing read on rather large tables

2005-06-04 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Without reading too hard, I suggest having a quick look at contrib/ltree module in the PostgreSQL distribution. It may or may not help you. Chris hubert lubaczewski wrote: hi first let me draw the outline. we have a database which stores adverts. each advert is in one category, and one or

Re: [PERFORM] strategies for optimizing read on rather large tables

2005-06-04 Thread hubert lubaczewski
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 07:17:17PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: Without reading too hard, I suggest having a quick look at contrib/ltree module in the PostgreSQL distribution. It may or may not help you. acr_cache doesn't care about trees. and - since i have acr_cache - i dont have

Re: [PERFORM] strategies for optimizing read on rather large tables

2005-06-04 Thread hubert lubaczewski
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 01:18:04PM +0200, PFC wrote: Then write your query as : select advert_id from acr_cache where category_id = ? and region_id = ? order by category_id, region_id, XXX limit 20; this is great idea - i'll check it out definitelly. depesz signature.asc Description:

Re: [PERFORM] strategies for optimizing read on rather large tables

2005-06-04 Thread PFC
select advert_id from acr_cache where category_id = ? and region_id = ? order by category_id, region_id, XXX limit 20; don't forget to mention all the index columns in the order by, or the planner won't use it. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [PERFORM] strategies for optimizing read on rather large tables

2005-06-04 Thread hubert lubaczewski
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 02:07:52PM +0200, PFC wrote: don't forget to mention all the index columns in the order by, or the planner won't use it. of course. i understand the concept. actually i find kind of ashamed i did not try it before. anyway - thanks for great tip. depesz