| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tony Caduto <tony_caduto(at)amsoftwaredesign(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Having problems with a 25 million row table on 8.1.3 |
| Date: | 2006-04-25 20:15:54 |
| Message-ID: | 20060425201554.GF20309@svana.org |
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On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 03:10:32PM -0500, Tony Caduto wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a client who has a 25 million row table that is used to keep
> track of financial security info.
> So far it has worked great, but today someone wanted to get all the tax
> codes(there are lot's of dupes) from the table.
> So we tried this:
>
> select DISTINCT tax_code from warehouse.sec_trans
> We let this run for 1/2 hour or so and canceled it.
What plan did it want to use (EXPLAIN query)? What version of
PostgreSQL? How many results are you expecting?
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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