Hi, I have a problem where I have a large set of (key, value) which I want to sort by value, and then store in a table having (rank, key, value) fields, so that for a given key I can quickly find the rank, or for a given rank range, I can quickly list the keys & values.
Since there is no ROW_NUMBER() function, but there is an autoincrement feature, and the rank are numbered 1, 2, 3 etc. the strategy I have been using is to create ranked table like CREATE RANKED ( RANK INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, KEY INTEGER, VALUE FLOAT ) (+ an index for the key) and then I fill that table with something like INSERT INTO RANKED SELECT key, value FROM ...something rather complex and big... ORDER BY value desc This works well enough, but as the amount of values to be ranked increases, this feels wasteful to delete everything and then re-insert everything just to adjust the RANK column, also I am running into memory issues as the ORDER BY requires a temporary b-tree which runs into the gigabyte range in some instances. I have ways to maintain the KEY and VALUES individually and incrementally, but approaches I have tried to maintain the RANK with UPDATE queries ran much slower than deleting and recreating everything, though this could just be bad implementations from my part. Are there any other strategies I could use that could update just the RANK field and mitigate the temporary B-tree size? Eric _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users