Re: [SQL] dynamic events categorization

2008-06-27 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 05:06:14PM +0200, Marc Mamin wrote:
> 
> Hello,

Hi Marc,

> I guess that the time offsets (now-21 and now-28) are evaluated each
> time the corresponding condition is met.

Excellent suggestion, this makes the query ~ 15% faster. Every bit
counts.

> It may be faster to put them into a separate sub query. I'm not sure
> about putting "now" itself within the sub query...

Where would you put it?

> It may also be better to put your query in a procedure where you can put
> these constants into variables instead of using a sub query.
> 
> Depending of the distribution of a) 2_past,1_future,0_current and '' and
> b) t.type,  it may be worth to have different queries, bound with UNION
> ALL. This would simplify the "CASE" construct and at least part of the
> tests should happen on indexes only.

Could you give a very short example?

> If the query is run very often, you may want to add a boolean column
> is_past on show_date, and have a separate job that put the concerned
> records to true every x minutes ...

That would require a cron job (?). I'm trying to keep the app self-contained
for now.

> HTH,

It sure does, thanks!

Cheers,

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Re: [SQL] dynamic events categorization

2008-06-26 Thread Marc Mamin

Hello,

I guess that the time offsets (now-21 and now-28) are evaluated each
time the corresponding condition is met.
It may be faster to put them into a separate sub query. I'm not sure
about putting "now" itself within the sub query...

It may also be better to put your query in a procedure where you can put
these constants into variables instead of using a sub query.

Depending of the distribution of a) 2_past,1_future,0_current and '' and
b) t.type,  it may be worth to have different queries, bound with UNION
ALL. This would simplify the "CASE" construct and at least part of the
tests should happen on indexes only.


If the query is run very often, you may want to add a boolean column
is_past on show_date, and have a separate job that put the concerned
records to true every x minutes ...


HTH,

Marc Mamin





SELECT s.id_event_subtype, s.subtype, t.id_event_type, t.type,
e.id_event, e.created_by, e.created_on, e.modified_by,
e.modified_on,
e.id_image, e.show_name, e.length, d.id_date,
d.start_date, d.end_date, d.low_price, d.high_price,
d.id_location,
d.showtime,
CASE
WHEN d.start_date <= 'now'::text::date
AND 
CASE
WHEN t.type = 'movie'::text THEN
d.start_date >= c.a
WHEN t.type = 'book'::text THEN
e.created_on >= c.b
ELSE d.end_date >=
'now'::text::date OR d.end_date IS NULL
END THEN '0_current'::text
WHEN d.start_date > 'now'::text::date
THEN '1_future'::text
WHEN d.start_date IS NOT NULL THEN
'2_past'::text
ELSE ''::text
END AS timing
FROM 
-- added sub query:
(select 'now'::text::date - 21 as a,  'now'::text::date - 28 as
b) c,
event e
NATURAL JOIN event_type2 t
LEFT JOIN event_subtype2 s USING (id_event_subtype)
LEFT JOIN show_date d USING (id_event);




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