Re: Querying distinct values from a large table

From: "Luke Lonergan" <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>
To: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Gregory Stark" <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: "Chad Wagner" <chad(dot)wagner(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Igor Lobanov" <ilobanov(at)swsoft(dot)com>, "Richard Huxton" <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Querying distinct values from a large table
Date: 2007-01-30 18:20:28
Message-ID: C1E4CC6C.19A2C%llonergan@greenplum.com
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Alvaro,

On 1/30/07 9:04 AM, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:

>> (Incidentally I'm not sure where 2-5x comes from. It's entirely dependant on
>> your data distribution. It's not hard to come up with distributions where
>> it's
>> 1000x as fast and others where there's no speed difference.)
>
> So the figure is really "1-1000x"? I bet this one is more impressive in
> PHB terms.

You got me - I'll bite - what's PHB?

- Luke

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