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From: Björn Wittich <Bjoern_Wittich@gmx.de>
To: Szymon Guz <mabewlun@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: query a table with lots of coulmns
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 14:48:03 +0200
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Hi Szymon,

yes I have indexes on both columns (one in each table) which I am using 
for join operation.

Am 19.09.2014 14:04, schrieb Szymon Guz:
>
>
> On 19 September 2014 13:51, Björn Wittich <Bjoern_Wittich@gmx.de 
> <mailto:Bjoern_Wittich@gmx.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi mailing list,
>
>     I am relatively new to postgres. I have a table with 500 coulmns
>     and about 40 mio rows. I call this cache table where one column is
>     a unique key (indexed) and the 499 columns (type integer) are some
>     values belonging to this key.
>
>     Now I have a second (temporary) table (only 2 columns one is the
>     key of my cache table) and I want  do an inner join between my
>     temporary table and the large cache table and export all matching
>     rows. I found out, that the performance increases when I limit the
>     join to lots of small parts.
>     But it seems that the databases needs a lot of disk io to gather
>     all 499 data columns.
>     Is there a possibilty to tell the databases that all these colums
>     are always treated as tuples and I always want to get the whole
>     row? Perhaps the disk oraganization could then be optimized?
>
> Hi,
> do you have indexes on the columns you use for joins?
>
> Szymon

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