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Prune unused joins

I have expected that selecting from a view would not join the tables from which I don't query any values, but it doesn't seem to be the case. I have a bunch of tables with the following structure: ...
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Algorithm for finding the longest prefix

I have two tables. First one is a table with prefixes code name price 343 ek1 10 3435 nt 4 3432 ek2 2 Second is call records with phone numbers number time 834353212 10 ...
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How can I increase performance for select in select statement

The item table is like this id category_id name registered I have to show total number of items from the beginning. Suppose between 2013-05-01 to 20-05--05, I have to count all the items ...
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Different queries result in big difference in performance

I have 2 similar functions, different way result in big diff in performance. The PostgreSQL version: 9.2.1. Function 1 create or replace function func_1() returns text as $$ declare v_i ...
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Identical Postgres index scan taking 5x longer on server

I have an intermediate table for managing a many-to-many relation between tables called Expert and Subject: Column | Type | Modifiers ...
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Could too many idle connections affect PostgreSQL 9.2 performance?

Some queries on my database server seem to take a long time to respond, and I believe the CPU usage is high. When running ps aux, I see ~250 "idle" connections (which I believe to be too many). I ...
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Postgres performance difference on insert

I was tried to partition one large table, and come with such Postgres behavior that I could not explain. Maybe you will have any suggestions? I went quite straight forward way (i know that it is not ...
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Inner join using an array column

Having trouble indexing and executing a query in O (log n) time. The query includes an INNER JOIN, an ORDER BY, and an equality operation. If I understand the laws of databases correctly, a query can ...
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What is the algorithmic complexity of a PosgtreSQL greater than or lesser than index query (compared to equality)?

Assuming there is an index idx_int on an int_col column, what is the algorithmic complexity of a query like this? SELECT id FROM table WHERE table.int_col > 1; I'm specifically interested in ...
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SOLVED: Postgres 8.4.5: Bad query plan vs Good query plan when changing date range on large data table

SOLVED. I was able to resolve this issue by altering the time.date column to allow 1000 stats: ALTER TABLE time ALTER COLUMN date SET STATISTICS 1000; Now the queries are running very fast, down to ...
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PostgreSQL Sequential Scan instead of Index Scan Why?

Hi All I've got a problem with my PostgreSQL database query and wondering if anyone can help. In some scenarios my query seems to ignore the index that I've created which is used for joining the two ...
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Faster joining on 'most recent' related rows

I have a bug tracking application. The bug table stores very little, because every state change to a bug happens by adding a comment. For example, the current state of a bug is determined by the state ...
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PostgreSQL 8.3: Slow GROUP BY on large table

I have a table with about 10 million records. I want to do a simple group by, but it's using a sequential scan and is slow... select run_id, count(*) from result group by run_id; I have an index ...
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Performance of different precedence pseudocolumn solutions with LIMIT

I was wondering about the relative performance of the solutions provided in the answers to a question on stackoverflow, I decided to run some tests. The OP wanted to get the first matching row given ...
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Looking for a possible multi-column index

I have a table highscore containing the columns: game (text) date (timestamp) score (integer) more irrelevant ones... The query most often run on it is: SELECT * FROM highscore WHERE game = ...
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Do I risk losing the benefits of indexing if I have an index on every column?

I use PostgreSQL 9.2. I have a table with ~5 million rows and 150 columns. The table does not change at all (I replace it once a year). Users query this table with all kinds of filters on any some of ...
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Increasing work_mem and shared_buffers on Postgres 9.2 significantly slows down queries

I have a PostgreSQL 9.2 instance running on RHEL 6.3, 8-core machine with 16GB of RAM. The server is dedicated to this database. Given that the default postgresql.conf is quite conservative regarding ...
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Optimising query on view that merges similar tables with a clear discriminator

Using PostgreSQL 8.4, I have a number of tables that have a very similar structure, but that belong to different categories: CREATE TABLE table_a ( id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, event_time TIMESTAMP ...
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How should we handle rows which won't be queried once they are old in PostgreSQL?

We have a table in a PostgreSQL database which is growing on the order of millions of rows per day. Each row consists of: ID Foreign user ID Date and time Other data The date and time aren't ...
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PostgreSQL 9.1 - Query on VIEWS taking a lot of time

Using PostgreSQL 9.1, we are having problems while executing queries on a VIEW of PostgreSQL. Following is the situation: We have a partitioned Table "buz_scdr" over which we have built a VIEW ...
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postgres composite index design

In my rails application using the Postgres database, I have a table called tw_schedules which belongs to a scenarios table (one scenario to many tw_schedules). In addition to the scenario_id foreign ...
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What is retrieved from disk during a query?

Fairly simple question, probably answered somewhere, but I can't seem to form the right search question for Google... Do the number of columns in a particular table affect the performance of a query, ...
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Can spatial index help a “range - order by - limit” query

Asking this question, specifically for Postgres, as it has good supoort for R-tree/spatial indexes. We have the following table with a tree structure (Nested Set model) of words and their ...
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Performance degradation while updating tables having 10s of millions of records

I want to update tables ( my be 20-30 ) having 10s of millions of records each. The problem is that it is taking too much time for the update process and also at that time CPU usage also goes very ...
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Attempting to avoid SORT in query planner

I have a query that is used VERY frequently in my application. Without modifying the query itself, I'm trying to optimize it by toying with different indexing schemes. Here's the query (basically): ...
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Rewriting a query

I have a database with the following structure (star schema): facttable: pros integer mena integer me integer vahet double precision slutttp timestamp without time zone Structure of each ...