Re: SQL Help

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: "Mark A(dot) Summers" <msummers(at)irtnet(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SQL Help
Date: 2001-01-27 01:48:07
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.21.0101261746560.98620-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Mark A. Summers wrote:

> I am having trouble with the following query taking forever:
> -----
> SELECT * FROM ret108108_00, product
> WHERE ret108108_00."isbn" = product."Item1"
>
> AND product."SuperCategory" = '1'
> AND product."PublisherCode" = 'ZON'
> ORDER BY ret108108_00.qty DESC LIMIT 100
> ----
> The problem is the second AND -- if I take this out it runs fine -- is there
> any way to optimize it ? I had a similar problem with just Category so I
> created a new field in the product file called FullCat which combined
> SuperCategory and Category and thus eliminating the 2nd AND clause -- and
> that fixed it -- I just didn't want to do the same thing with Publisher.
> Before I tried to index Category, SuperCategory ... nothing seemed to help

Have you run a VACUUM ANALYZE on the table? And what does
EXPLAIN show for the query?

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  • SQL Help at 2001-01-26 19:11:45 from Mark A. Summers

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