From: | "rex" <rex(at)berg(dot)dnttm(dot)ro> |
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To: | <pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
Subject: | ORDER BY, LIKE !!? (* - new information) |
Date: | 1998-09-18 12:30:53 |
Message-ID: | 01bde300$2d28ddc0$6a2ca8c0@rex.berg |
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Hi,
I have :
- a table with more than 2.000.000 records. It looks like this :
+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+-----
--+
| Field | Type
|Length |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+-----
--+
| fileno | int4
|4 |
| size | int4
|4 |
| type | char2
|2 |
| date | datetime
|8 |
| host | varchar()
|32 |
| name(with path) | varchar()
|1024 |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+-----
--+
- a PostgreSQL 6.3
-* 4.1 AIX system, 128 RAM, 300 virtual memory, 700 M HDD, 'jfs' is the type
HDD
- postmaster is started with the following parameters :
-i -B 1024 -S -o '-F -S 10240' -D/opt/pgdata
- * an index on 'name' field (but the LIKE don't use indexes - anybody can
obtain this result if use the EXPLAIN command. )
I want to select only few (100) rows, [from a given row,] having an order
criterium,
faster (< 2 min) :
" SELECT * FROM File WHERE name LIKE '%/u/projects%' [AND name LIKE ...]
ORDER BY name;"
[from the beginning of the row 750000]
OR
" SELECT * FROM File WHERE name LIKE '%/u/projects%' [AND name LIKE ...]
ORDER BY date;"
[from the beginning of the row 750000]
Could someone help me ?
*Could someone explain me what are the indexes ? They work (properly) only
on WHERE clause with '=', '<', etc. operators ? ( The size of the index file
in ~1/3 * (size of the table file) and if the table is ... the index is also
...)
Thanks,
rex
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