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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Carlos Benkendorf <carlosbenkendorf@yahoo.com.br>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ORDER BY costs
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:39:35 -0500
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In-Reply-To: <20051221181601.45239.qmail@web35508.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Carlos Benkendorf <carlosbenkendorf@yahoo.com.br> writes:
>                  Table "iparq.arript"
>       Column       |         Type          | Modifiers
> -------------------+-----------------------+-----------
>  anocalc           | numeric(4,0)          | not null
>  cadastro          | numeric(8,0)          | not null
>  codvencto         | numeric(2,0)          | not null
>  parcela           | numeric(2,0)          | not null
>  inscimob          | character varying(18) | not null
>  codvencto2        | numeric(2,0)          | not null
>  parcela2          | numeric(2,0)          | not null
>  codpropr          | numeric(10,0)         | not null
>  dtaven            | numeric(8,0)          | not null
>  anocalc2          | numeric(4,0)          |

I suspect you'd find a significant performance improvement from changing
the NUMERIC columns to int or bigint as needed.  Numeric comparisons are
pretty slow.

			regards, tom lane



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