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From: Matthew Lunnon <mlunnon@rwa-net.co.uk>
To: Uros <uros@sir-mag.com>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Optimizing query
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:44:01 -0000
Message-ID: <003201c3ae92$6d150c20$8e8bbd3e@rwanet.co.uk> (raw)
References: <81222392078.20031119114141@sir-mag.com>

Do something like:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION my_date_part( timestamp) RETURNS DOUBLE precision AS '
DECLARE
 mydate ALIAS FOR $1;
BEGIN
 return date_part( ''day'', mydate );
END;' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' IMMUTABLE;

create index idx_tmp on stat_views( my_date_part( created ) );

or add an extra date_part column to your table which pre-calculates date_part('day', created) and put an index on this.

Cheers
Matthew
--

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Uros 
  To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 10:41 AM
  Subject: [GENERAL] Optimizing query


  Hello!

  I have some trouble getting good results from my query.

  here is structure

  stat_views
  id        | integer
  id_zone   | integer
  created   | timestamp


  I have btree index on created and also id and there is  1633832 records in
  that table

  First of all I have to manualy set seq_scan to OFF because I always get
  seq_scan. When i set it to off my explain show:

  explain SELECT count(*) as views FROM stat_views WHERE id = 12;
                                               QUERY PLAN
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Aggregate  (cost=122734.86..122734.86 rows=1 width=0)
     ->  Index Scan using stat_views_id_idx on stat_views  (cost=0.00..122632.60 rows=40904 width=0)
           Index Cond: (id = 12)

  But what I need is to count views for some day, so I use

  explain SELECT count(*) as views FROM stat_views WHERE date_part('day', created) = 18;

                                       QUERY PLAN
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Aggregate  (cost=100101618.08..100101618.08 rows=1 width=0)
     ->  Seq Scan on stat_views  (cost=100000000.00..100101565.62 rows=20984 width=0)
           Filter: (date_part('day'::text, created) = 18::double precision)


  How can I make this to use index and speed the query. Now it takes about 12
  seconds.
           
  -- 
  Best regards,
   Uros                          mailto:uros@sir-mag.com


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