From: tyrrill_ed@emc.com
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Join question
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:48:18 -0400
Message-ID: <5C7C0B0734F87445AFC8B63EDCC4901E015ED7EE@CORPUSMX60C.corp.emc.com> (raw)
Hey All,
I have a query I'm trying to speed up, and I was hoping someone could
help me. I have a three tables a and b hold data, and c just references
between a and b:
create table a (
a_id int,
x int
);
create table b (
b_id int,
x int
);
create table c (
a_id int,
b_id int
);
I am doing a query like this:
SELECT a.x, max(b.x) FROM a, b, c WHERE a.a_id = c.a_id AND b.b_id =
c.b_id GROUP by a.x;
I only need to get one row from b for each row in a, and it really
doesn't matter which one. I use max() to get a single value from table
b. There are generally be dozens to hundreds of rows in b for each row
in a. The problem is when I have a query with tens of thousands of rows
in a that the join with b will have millions of rows, and is really
slow. The group by effectively reduces the results down to what I want,
but it still has to process the millions of rows. Does anyone know a
way I could restructure this query to get only one b for each a in a
faster way?
Thanks,
Ed Tyrrill
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