Re: directory tree query with big planner variation

From: Axel Rau <Axel(dot)Rau(at)Chaos1(dot)DE>
To: Mark Lewis <mark(dot)lewis(at)mir3(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Stone <mstone+postgres(at)mathom(dot)us>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: directory tree query with big planner variation
Date: 2006-07-31 16:20:56
Message-ID: 1D01FFCF-2C45-4D8C-A956-50320BDE5FB7@Chaos1.DE
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Am 31.07.2006 um 15:53 schrieb Mark Lewis:

> It seems like you might be able to avoid the expensive directory
> lookups
> entirely without changing the schema by defining an immutable function
> dir_depth(path), which would just count the number of forward slashes.
> Then create a functional index on dir_depth(path) and in the query
> do a
> check for directories with a given prefix and the expected dir_depth.
Still I must check for flatfiles in those subdirectories...
See my clarification here
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2006-07/msg00311.php

Axel
Axel Rau, ☀Frankfurt , Germany +49-69-951418-0

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