From: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
To: Jan Danielsson <jan.danielsson@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: two count columns?
Date: 17 Feb 2006 19:51:27 -0500
Message-ID: <87mzgp1oc0.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43F662C4.9070402@gmail.com>
References: <43F662C4.9070402@gmail.com>
Jan Danielsson <jan.danielsson@gmail.com> writes:
> select from_ip, count(from_ip) as entries, count(select * from log where
> ...) as tot_entries, max(ts)::timestamp(0) as last_access from log where
> to_port=22 and direction='in' group by from_ip
select from_ip,
count(from_ip) as entries,
(select count(*)
from log as l
where l.from_ip = log.from_ip
) as tot_entries,
max(ts) as last_access
from log
where to_port=22
and direction='in
group by from_ip
expect it to be pretty slow though. For every from_ip it has to look up every
other entry with that from_ip.
> Thankful for any hints or tips.
There is a trick you could use to make it faster but it gets cumbersome and
pretty tricky to use when you're doing more than one thing at a time:
select from_ip
sum(case when to_port=22 and direction='in' then 1 else 0 end) as entries,
count(*) as tot_entries,
max(case when to_port=22 and direction='in' then ts::timestamp(0) else null end) as last_access
from log
group by from_ip
having entries > 0
Note that in either case you might want to look at ANALYZE results for the
query and try raising work_mem for this query using SET until you see the plan
using a hash aggregate. If it can use a hash aggregate for your query (more
likely for the first query than the second) without swapping it'll be faster
than sorting.
--
greg
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