Hi,

I have a 14 million row table with one index on two fields one is a varchar
the other is a date.  The combination of the two makes the row unique.

Data
-----------------
name  date    ... other fields
a     1/1/01
a     1/2/01
a     1/3/01
b     1/1/01
b     1/2/01
d     1/1/01
d     1/2/01

I have a table with just the names.  each name occurs once.
UName
---------
name
a
b
c
d

I've tried a number of queries to find which name is in UName but not in
Data.   However, they are all taking too long (more than 30 minutes - but
the hard drive is a slow 4200rpm IDE....).

What is the quickest query to get the result that I want?  Also, should I
put another index on the Data table for "name" only?

Thanks

Responses

• Re: filtering at 2004-12-11 19:01:05 from Bruno Wolff III

pgsql-sql by date

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