Re: [SQL] iceberg queries

2003-02-04 Thread Jan Wieck
Tom Lane wrote: > > Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > As to the original question, if an index is available that returns the > > rows in the sort order of the GROUP BY clause, PostgreSQL defaults to an > > index scan, otherwise it will do a sort of the rows matching an optional > > WHERE c

Re: [SQL] iceberg queries

2003-02-04 Thread Tom Lane
Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As to the original question, if an index is available that returns the > rows in the sort order of the GROUP BY clause, PostgreSQL defaults to an > index scan, otherwise it will do a sort of the rows matching an optional > WHERE clause. This sorted set is the

Re: [SQL] iceberg queries

2003-02-04 Thread Jan Wieck
Christoph Haller wrote: > > > > > Does PostgreSQL optimizer handle iceberg queries well? > > > What do you mean by "iceberg query" ? > I've never heard this term. Iceberg queries compute one or more aggregate functions to find aggregate values above a specified threshold. A typical iceberg query

Re: [SQL] iceberg queries

2003-02-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:08:56 -0500, Wei Weng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is a query that looks like > > SELECT target1, target2... targetn, SUN(t.qty) > FROM Table t > GROUP BY target1 > HAVING SUM(t.qty)>=10 > > You can replace SUM(t.qty)>=10 with other aggregate constraints. There we

Re: [SQL] iceberg queries

2003-02-04 Thread Wei Weng
TECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 3:39 AM Subject: Re: [SQL] iceberg queries > > Does PostgreSQL optimizer handle iceberg queries well? > What do you mean by "iceberg query" ? I've never heard this term. Regards, Christoph --

Re: [SQL] iceberg queries

2003-02-04 Thread Christoph Haller
> > Does PostgreSQL optimizer handle iceberg queries well? > What do you mean by "iceberg query" ? I've never heard this term. Regards, Christoph ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SQL] iceberg queries

2003-02-03 Thread Wei Weng
Does PostgreSQL optimizer handle iceberg queries well? Thanks Wei ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]