Re: [GENERAL] Clustering with enough work_mem: copy heap in mem?

2009-08-20 Thread Scara Maccai
> There was an > attempt to fix it (for example so that it could try to do a > seqscan+sort > instead of indexscan), but it stalled. Actually I read that, but it's complicated... it involves planning and a lot of other stuff I don't even know about... My "solution" I guess would be easier (but,

Re: [GENERAL] Clustering with enough work_mem: copy heap in mem?

2009-08-20 Thread Scara Maccai
> I've found it easier to select everything into another > table, truncate > the original table, then insert the rows as: that takes 50 seconds of pure sorting and 8GB of ram to sort; my method doesn't require more memory than the size of the heap table, and no sorting, since the index is alread

[GENERAL] Clustering with enough work_mem: copy heap in mem?

2009-08-20 Thread Scara Maccai
Hi, I have a table with 15M rows. Table is around 5GB on disk. Clustering the table takes 5 minutes. A seq scan takes 20 seconds. I guess clustering is done using a seq scan on the index and then fetching the proper rows in the heap. If that's the case, fetching random rows on disk is the caus

R: [GENERAL] Field's position in Table

2009-08-20 Thread Scara Maccai
> When adding a new field in the existing table, i > want to add the filed in a particular position. I'm afraid the only way would be re-writing the whole table (pseudo sql): BEGIN; create table newtable as select field1, 'newfield default value', field2 from old_table; create_all_indexes on ne

I: Re: [GENERAL] totally different plan when using partitions

2009-08-17 Thread Scara Maccai
I've never received any reply to this post; as I said, I think I have a dump that recreates the problem. --- Ven 14/8/09, Scara Maccai ha scritto: > Da: Scara Maccai > Oggetto: Re: [GENERAL] totally different plan when using partitions > A: "Tom Lane" > Cc: "

Re: [GENERAL] adding a nullable col could rewrite the whole table?

2009-08-14 Thread Scara Maccai
> are null. > But there's also a number saying how many columns there are Uh, thank you. Looking for t_natts I think I've found the discussion: http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20090521.144512.3ffe4801.en.html Thank you again. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postg

R: [GENERAL] Table as parameter

2009-08-14 Thread Scara Maccai
> I have a problem: I need put the "table name" as > a parameter in a function! I think you have to use dynamic statements: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.o

[GENERAL] adding a nullable col could rewrite the whole table?

2009-08-14 Thread Scara Maccai
Hi all, in the docs I read: "Adding a column with a non-null default [...] will require the entire table to be rewritten" I guess that that can't be read as "you can always assume that adding a nullable column to a table won't rewrite the whole table". I'm asking because since the page layout

Re: [GENERAL] totally different plan when using partitions

2009-08-14 Thread Scara Maccai
Query: set enable_mergejoin=off;set enable_hashjoin=off; explain analyze select nome1, thv3tralacc, dltbfpgpdch FROM cell_bsc_60_0610 as cell_bsc left outer join teststscell73_test as data on data.ne_id=cell_bsc.nome1 left outer

Re: [GENERAL] totally different plan when using partitions

2009-08-14 Thread Scara Maccai
> Hmmm ... why is the inner Nested Loop estimated to produce > 30120 rows, > when the cartesian product of its inputs would only be 285 > * 14 = 3990 > rows?  Oh my... didn't notice it!!! > What PG version is this That was 8.4 beta1; now tried on select version() "PostgreSQL 8.4.0 on sparc-s

Re: [GENERAL] totally different plan when using partitions

2009-08-13 Thread Scara Maccai
> What version are you using?  Also, > please post the table > definitions (preferably in pg_dump -s format) Table definition at the end of the msg. Postgresql 8.4beta1 > I'm not sure I agree with your assessment of the problem. This is why I think that's the problem: This is an explain of the q

Re: [GENERAL] totally different plan when using partitions + request

2009-08-13 Thread Scara Maccai
> >     -> Index Scan using > teststscell13_pkey on teststscell13 data1 (cost=0.0..3.9 > rows=1 width=16) (actual time=0.006..0.006 rows=0 > loops=285) > > > > doesn't make any sense: that table will never have any > data. > > I'd like to have a way to tell that to Postgresql... > > It's one inde

Re: [GENERAL] totally different plan when using partitions

2009-08-13 Thread Scara Maccai
> Huh, clearly not the same query (you're using the partition > directly in > the first query) ...  Doing two changes at once is not > helping your > case. Sorry, I don't understand... of course I used the partition directly in the first query... it's the difference between the two... what I don'

Re: [GENERAL] multiple paramters in aggregate function

2009-08-13 Thread Scara Maccai
> That could work in some cases, however in our case it would > not produce > desirable results. Well I don't think you got Alban's suggestion right... What he was trying to say was: - use a regular (not aggregated) function to convert all measures to mm - use the normal SUM() to sum those value

R: [GENERAL] multiple paramters in aggregate function

2009-08-13 Thread Scara Maccai
> Is there a better way? I think you could use a User Data Type. Then pass that as parameter to your aggregate function. That is: you would pass (4, 'meter') (400, 'mm') (100, 'cm') to your aggregate function. Each one is a user datatype: CREATE TYPE mytype AS ( v double precisio

Re: [GENERAL] totally different plan when using partitions + request

2009-08-13 Thread Scara Maccai
I'm still looking into it, but it seems the difference in the 2 plans is due to the fact that when using partitions, the planner adds the time it would take to index-scan the empty "root" table. But that table will never contain any data... Is there any chance to have the partitioning mechanism

Re: [GENERAL] totally different plan when using partitions

2009-08-13 Thread Scara Maccai
Thank you for your reply. This makes partitions unusable for me... hope someone explains why this happens... this still looks like a bug to me... BTW the problem arises when adding the second "left outer join": when using only 1 partitioned table (that is, only 1 "left outer join") the 2 plans ar

R: [GENERAL] totally different plan when using partitions

2009-08-13 Thread Scara Maccai
Anyone??? This looks like a bug to me... or is there an explanation? --- Mer 12/8/09, Scara Maccai ha scritto: > Da: Scara Maccai > Oggetto: [GENERAL] totally different plan when using partitions > A: "pgsql-general" > Data: Mercoledì 12 agosto 2009, 13:05 >

[GENERAL] totally different plan when using partitions

2009-08-12 Thread Scara Maccai
query using partitions explicitly ("1"): explain analyze select nome1, thv3tralacc, dltbfpgpdch FROM cell_bsc_60_0610 as cell_bsc left outer join teststscell73_0610_1 as data on data.ne_id=cell_bsc.nome1 left outer join teststsce

R: [GENERAL] batch inserts in python & libpq

2009-08-10 Thread Scara Maccai
> Is there a Python driver that uses the same protocol form > of addBatch in Java? I'll answer my own question: the method to be used should be cursor.executemany() -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.pos

[GENERAL] batch inserts in python & libpq

2009-08-07 Thread Scara Maccai
Hi all, using Java I'm able to get a 1 inserts/sec on our server using batch updates (using preparedStatement.addBatch()). Using Python I can't get past 2000 inserts/sec, which is roughly the same performance of Java without addBatch. Is there a Python driver that uses the same protocol f

Re: [GENERAL] Performance problem with low correlation data

2009-07-07 Thread Scara Maccai
> But that would be a different query -- there's no > restrictions on the > t values in this one. There is a restriction on the t values: select * from idtable left outer join testinsert on id=ne_id where groupname='a group name' and time between $a_date and $another_date > Have you tried som

[GENERAL] Performance problem with low correlation data

2009-07-06 Thread Scara Maccai
I have a problem with the method that PG uses to access my data. Data into testinsert is inserted every 15 minutes. ne_id varies from 1 to 2. CREATE TABLE testinsert ( ne_id integer NOT NULL, t timestamp without time zone NOT NULL, v integer[], CONSTRAINT testinsert_pk PRIMARY KEY

R: [GENERAL] Does anyone know of a job scheduler that uses PostgreSQL?

2009-07-01 Thread Scara Maccai
> I am looking for something similar > to: > http://www.arcanadev.com/adtempus/  but without > the MS SQL server dependency. http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.4/pgagent.html -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.p

[GENERAL] Multi - table statistics

2009-07-01 Thread Scara Maccai
Hi, I query is using Index scan instead of Bitmap Index Scan because it "thinks" that the number of rows returned will be low (12). In fact, the number of rows returned is 120. This happens because there are some WHERE conditions that check cross-tables values (something like taba.col1 < tabb

[GENERAL] ZFS & disk cache

2009-06-01 Thread Scara Maccai
"The Solaris ZFS file system is safe with disk write-cache enabled because it issues its own disk cache flush commands" Could someone explain? would that mean that I checking the disk cache with "format -e" on Solaris is not needed if I use ZFS Thanks -- Sent via pgsql-general maili

[GENERAL] using explain to get query expected time

2009-05-25 Thread Scara Maccai
Hi, is there any chance to get the "Planner Cost Constants" right enough to get a "good" estimate in seconds of how long a query is supposed to run? The "rowcount" estimates are always good (there is no skew data at all in the db, values are pretty much "plain" distributed) -- Sent via p

Re: [GENERAL] how the planner decides between bitmap/index scan

2009-05-19 Thread Scara Maccai
Ops, found it: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/view-pg-stats.html ("correlation" column) I guess it would be worth pointing it out in the planner docs... Scara Maccai wrote: > Hi, > > does the planner know how "scattered" rows are? If yes:

[GENERAL] how the planner decides between bitmap/index scan

2009-05-19 Thread Scara Maccai
Hi, does the planner know how "scattered" rows are? If yes: where is this info stored? I'm asking because it looks to me that not only the number of rows, but also how data is on disk (more or less sequential) is used to determine what type of index scan (bitmap/regular) has to be used... bu

Re: [GENERAL] referring to calculated column in sub select

2009-05-19 Thread Scara Maccai
you --- Lun 18/5/09, Sam Mason ha scritto: > Da: Sam Mason > Oggetto: Re: [GENERAL] referring to calculated column in sub select > A: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Data: Lunedì 18 maggio 2009, 19:10 > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 06:49:30AM > -0700, Scara Maccai wrote: > > why c

[GENERAL] referring to calculated column in sub select

2009-05-18 Thread Scara Maccai
Hi, why column "acoltest" is not found by the subselect in this select: SELECT acol + 100 as acoltest, (select max(t) from mytab where anothercol=acoltest) as col2 FROM mytab2 group by somet ??? Only columns belonging to a table can be used in a subselect??? What about "calculated"

[GENERAL] Matching dimensions in arrays

2009-03-09 Thread Scara Maccai
I've altready asked this some months ago, but I've never seen any answers: why do multidimensional arrays have to have matching extents for each dimension? Is there any way this limit can be removed, even using a custom datatype? __ Do You Yahoo!

Re: [GENERAL] speaking of 8.4...

2009-02-25 Thread Scara Maccai
What? Hot standby won't make it in 8.4? That's a shame... - Messaggio originale - > Da: Fujii Masao > A: pie...@hogranch.com > Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Inviato: Martedì 24 febbraio 2009, 20:47:05 > Oggetto: Re: [GENERAL] speaking of 8.4... > > Hi, > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at

Re: [GENERAL] left outer join without rows from "left" table

2009-02-16 Thread Scara Maccai
Thank you: that's exactly what I needed. > I think you want to use a full outer join with slightly unusual > bracketing: > > SELECT t.id, COALESCE(a.t,b.t) AS t, a.a, b.b > FROM tabid t LEFT JOIN ( > taba a FULL OUTER JOIN tabb b ON (a.id,a.t) = (b.id,b.t)) > ON t.id = COALESCE(a.

[GENERAL] left outer join without rows from "left" table

2009-02-16 Thread Scara Maccai
Hi all, I want to get data from these tables: TABID integer id, name varchar example values: 1 'id1' 2 'id2' [...] TABA integer id, timestamp t, integer a example values: 1 '2009-02-13 00:00:00' 10 1 '2009-02-13 02:00:00' 19 TABB integer id, timestamp t, integer b example values: 1 '2009-02-13 0

Re: [GENERAL] complex custom aggregate function

2009-02-09 Thread Scara Maccai
,value)::timemax_t), 3) from test where id = 10 AND quarter between '2008-12-01 00:00:00' and '2008-12-01 10:00:00' ; - Messaggio originale - > Da: Scara Maccai > A: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Inviato: Venerdì 30 gennaio 2009, 9:35:53 > Oggetto: complex cu

I: [GENERAL] arrays and block size

2009-02-02 Thread Scara Maccai
Anyone? - Messaggio inoltrato - > Da: Scara Maccai > A: pgsql-general > Inviato: Venerdì 30 gennaio 2009, 13:59:09 > Oggetto: [GENERAL] arrays and block size > > Hi, > > I need to store a lot of int8 columns (2000-2500) in a table. > > I was thinking a

Re: R: R: [GENERAL] complex custom aggregate function

2009-02-02 Thread Scara Maccai
Paolo Saudin wrote: > I use a master table with a "fulldate" field and filled with sequential dates > to > fill gaps when meteo data is missing. I'm sorry, I still don't get it: how can you be sure that postgresql won't call perl_sliding_mean with not-ordered timestamps-data? I don't mean only

Re: R: [GENERAL] complex custom aggregate function

2009-02-02 Thread Scara Maccai
> Paolo Saudin wrote: > For that purpose, a sliding mean calculation I use the following > > CREATE TABLE tbl_ayas > ( > fulldate timestamp without time zone NOT NULL, > id_1 real, -- temperature > id_2 real, -- pressure > .. > CONSTRAINT tbl_ayas_pkey PRIMARY KEY (fulldate) > )

[GENERAL] arrays and block size

2009-01-30 Thread Scara Maccai
Hi, I need to store a lot of int8 columns (2000-2500) in a table. I was thinking about using int8[], and I would like to know: 1) is there a max size for arrays? I guess I could have 1 GB "worth" of values, but I would like a confirmation 2) there won't be any updates, only inserts and selects;

Re: [GENERAL] complex custom aggregate function

2009-01-30 Thread Scara Maccai
Gregory Stark wrote: > From what I read of your > description you want to produce one record per input record. Exactly. > 8.4 Will have OLAP Window functions which can implement things like > moving averages. Using 8.3: could I do it caching all the values "somewhere" in a custom aggregation

[GENERAL] complex custom aggregate function

2009-01-30 Thread Scara Maccai
Hi all, I have a table like: value int, quarter timestamp I need an aggregate function that gives back the maximum "value" using this algorithm: AVG of the first hour (first 4 quarters) (AVG0) same as above, but 1 quarter later (AVG1) same as above, but n quarters later (AVGn) result: th

Re: [GENERAL] Nested Loop Left Join always shows rows=1

2008-12-02 Thread Scara Maccai
> Yeah, this is a bug: it's effectively double-counting the > selectivity of the index clause. The error isn't enormously critical, > since the join size estimate is right; but it could perhaps lead to > choosing a plain indexscan when a bitmap scan would be better. I've > applied a patch. Tha

Re: [GENERAL] Very large tables

2008-11-28 Thread Scara Maccai
Really I'm worried about reducing storage space and network overhead - therefore a nicely compressed chunk of binary would be perfect for the 500 values - wouldn't it? For storage space you might want to look at ZFS with compression on in case you are using FreeBSD or Solaris. That would s

Re: [GENERAL] Nested Loop Left Join always shows rows=1

2008-11-27 Thread Scara Maccai
Tom Lane wrote: Scara Maccai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: -> Index Scan using id_idx on tab1 (cost=0.00..8.27 rows=1 width=4) (actual time=0.010..0.011 rows=1 loops=1) Index Cond: (id = 10) -> Index Scan using out_id_idx on tab_outer (cos

[GENERAL] Nested Loop Left Join always shows rows=1

2008-11-27 Thread Scara Maccai
Query is: "explain analyze select sum(A), count(*) from tab1 left outer join tab_outer on id=out_id where id=10;" output: Aggregate (cost=31.91..31.92 rows=1 width=4) (actual time=14.185..14.185 rows=1 loops=1) -> Nested Loop Left Join (cost=0.00..17.11 rows=2959 width=4) (actual ti

[Fwd: [Fwd: Re: [GENERAL] return MAX and when it happened]]

2008-11-24 Thread Scara Maccai
I don't understand: is my question not clear, stupid, or you guys just don't like me? ;) Original Message Subject:[Fwd: Re: [GENERAL] return MAX and when it happened] Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:48:44 -0600 From: Scara Maccai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

Re: [GENERAL] Using Postgres to store high volume streams of sensor readings

2008-11-23 Thread Scara Maccai
> If you watch the speed, you'll see that the insert > speed is the > same, but the scan speed is worse (from 32k to 200). As I said, I don't know a lot about these things. But I would like someone to comment on this (so that maybe I will know something!): 1) I thought the poor insert perfo

Re: [GENERAL] Using Postgres to store high volume streams of sensor readings

2008-11-23 Thread Scara Maccai
> But unfortunately the query speed is not good at all > because most > queries are for a specific client (and sensor) in a given > time > range... Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know a lot of these things; but defining the index as (timestamp, clientid, sensor) instead of (clientid, sensor, timest

Re: [GENERAL] Using Postgres to store high volume streams of sensor readings

2008-11-22 Thread Scara Maccai
Since you always need the timestamp in your selects, have you tried indexing only the timestamp field? Your selects would be slower, but since client and sensor don't have that many distinct values compared to the number of rows you are inserting maybe the difference in selects would not be that

[Fwd: Re: [GENERAL] return MAX and when it happened]

2008-11-21 Thread Scara Maccai
Can someone answer me? Or do I have to ask this in the hackers list? I don't get from the docs: do I have to call get_call_result_type(fcinfo, NULL, &tupdesc) every time? I mean: the only example I've found about returning Composite Types talks about returning sets as well (34.9.10. Returni

Re: [GENERAL] return MAX and when it happened

2008-11-20 Thread Scara Maccai
Sam Mason wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 05:06:14PM -0600, Scara Maccai wrote: I think I wrote it, but there's something I don't get from the docs: do I have to call get_call_result_type(fcinfo, NULL, &tupdesc) I've always tried to stay away from C level extension

Re: [GENERAL] return MAX and when it happened

2008-11-19 Thread Scara Maccai
Sam Mason wrote: The custom aggregate sounds the most elegant, it's just annoying that it's so much fiddling to get it all working to start with Thanks. I think I wrote it, but there's something I don't get from the docs: do I have to call get_call_result_type(fcinfo, NULL, &tupdesc) every

Re: [GENERAL] return MAX and when it happened

2008-11-19 Thread Scara Maccai
Sam Mason wrote: Do you really want the SUM of num1 and num2, because that makes it more fiddly and would be where having MAX accept a record/tuple would be best. If you don't, maybe something like: SELECT DISTINCT ON (date_trunc('day', mydate)) date_trunc('day', mydate), num, num1+num2

Re: [GENERAL] return MAX and when it happened

2008-11-19 Thread Scara Maccai
Sam Mason wrote: Why not just do: SELECT * FROM mytab ORDER BY num, mydate LIMIT 1; If you're trying to do more complicated things, DISTINCT ON may be more useful. Well you guys are right; the problem is that the query is actually more complex, I tried to simplify it for the questio

[GENERAL] return MAX and when it happened

2008-11-19 Thread Scara Maccai
Hi all, suppose I have a table like: CREATE TABLE mytab ( num integer, mydate timestamp ); and I want to find MAX(num) and the "mydate" where it first happened. I guess I could use select * from mytab where num = (select MAX(num) from mytab) order by mydate limit 1; but that would sc

Re: [GENERAL] MVCC and index-only read

2008-11-18 Thread Scara Maccai
> FWIW, I believe that count(*) is pretty slow in Oracle too. Well COUNT was only an example. I think (but I'm not sure AT ALL) that SELECT A FROM myTAB where A <1 only uses the index (if there's an index defined for A) in Oracle. But mine was just curiosity... which I think you and Sam an

[GENERAL] MVCC and index-only read

2008-11-18 Thread Scara Maccai
Hi, if I got it right the reason some aggregates (such as COUNT) using only index columns are "slow" on postgresql is that it uses MVCC, so it has to read the data as well as the index. It makes sense to me, but I don't understand is how other databases (such as Oracle) do it. Can someone expla

Re: [GENERAL] TODO list and "hyphen"

2008-07-18 Thread Scara Maccai
> You are the first person to ever ask, and searching for ' -' is pretty > basic. If it is a problem, I think some other symbol should be used. using opera it doesn't work... and with Firefox you still get a lot of not-wanted matches... Of course, this is not a "problem", I was just thinking th

[GENERAL] TODO list and "hyphen"

2008-07-17 Thread Scara Maccai
Hi, I was looking at the TODO: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html "A hyphen, "-", marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 8.4 release." Well, making a search for the "-" sign is complicated... it's obviously used for a lot of other things... could you use another character?

[GENERAL] Array operator "sum array values" + matching dimensions

2008-04-03 Thread Scara Maccai
> create or replace function sum_elements(anyarray) > returns anyelement as $$ > select sum($1[i]) >from generate_series(array_lower($1,1), >array_upper($1,1)) g(i); > $$ language sql immutable; Thank you! Anyway what I was really asking was a "$" (or w

Re: [GENERAL] Array operator "sum array values" + matching dimensions

2008-04-02 Thread Scara Maccai
> create or replace function sum_elements(anyarray) > returns anyelement as $$ > select sum($1[i]) >from generate_series(array_lower($1,1), >array_upper($1,1)) g(i); > $$ language sql immutable; Thank you! Anyway what I was really asking was a "$" (or w

[GENERAL] Array operator "sum array values"

2008-03-31 Thread Scara Maccai
Hi, is there a syntax that sums the values of an array? That is, having an array like {1,3,8},{5,6,7} something like select arr[1:2][2:3] gives {1,3},{6,7} ; what I'd like is: select arr[1$2][2$3] gives: 17 (that is, 1+3 + 6+7) If there is no such operator, would it be complicated add

Re: [GENERAL] partitioning using dblink

2008-03-03 Thread Scara Maccai
> > >> You should have. The system enforces (or tries to) that a view can't be > > >> part of an inheritance hierarchy, but you seem to have managed to find a > > >> sequence of operations that avoids those checks. Turning a table into a > > >> view with a manual CREATE RULE operation has always

Re: [GENERAL] partitioning using dblink

2008-02-29 Thread Scara Maccai
> Exactly, because inheritance/constraint exclusion wont work with views. Ok, so there should be something written in the docs about it... From: "the information about a view in the PostgreSQL system catalogs is exactly the same as it is for a table. So for the parser, there is absolutely no

Re: [GENERAL] partitioning using dblink

2008-02-29 Thread Scara Maccai
is something I can work on later. At least I would like to see it working, since there is nothing in the docs that says it shouldn't be working... 4) I am not able to rewrite my queries. - Messaggio originale - Da: Marko Kreen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A: Scara Maccai <[EMAIL

Re: [GENERAL] partitioning using dblink

2008-02-29 Thread Scara Maccai
I can't get views to participate in the hierarchy... create table outings1 as select * from outings_root limit 0; alter table outings1 inherit outings_root; SELECT * FROM dblink('host=myhost dbname=tacche port=5433 user=postgres password=postgres'::text, 'SELECT * from outings1'::te

Re: [GENERAL] partitioning using dblink

2008-02-28 Thread Scara Maccai
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > I think you can do pretty much the same thing with PL/Proxy; see > https://developer.skype.com/SkypeGarage/DbProjects/PlProxy Mmmh, I actually looked into that but I thought it only worked with user functions... am I wrong? What I'd like to have is an almost-transparent h

[GENERAL] partitioning using dblink

2008-02-28 Thread Scara Maccai
Hi, I started thinking that using dblink I could "easily" get some kind of read only multi-server partitioning, if only VIEWs could be declared with "INHERITS"... That way I think I could 1) add as many views as the number of DBs as CREATE VIEW mytable_part_n AS INHERITS mytable to every D

Re: [GENERAL] Very long "or" where clause

2007-01-16 Thread Scara Maccai
Put the test-values into a temporary table, analyse it and then join against it. Ok, I didn't think of it. Can't say about indexes without knowing more about your usage pattern. What do you mean? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kil

[GENERAL] Very long "or" where clause

2007-01-16 Thread Scara Maccai
Hi, from a table with 100,000,000 rows I have to sum some records using a query like: select sum(field1) from mytab where (time = 1 and id = 3) or (time = 3 and id = 1) or (time = 2 and id = 5) [...] The "or clauses" can be even 10,000,000... Which would be the best method to access data?

[GENERAL] Accessing a custom FileSystem (as in Mysql "Custom Engine")

2007-01-04 Thread Scara Maccai
Hi, I have a custom "database" (a very fast select/slow insert db) written in c/c++. I can access it with mysql writing a "Custom Engine". That is pretty cool because now all my "custom db" tables can be joined with tables in mysql's format. I only need read access to my custom table format db