From: Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
To: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@MIT.EDU>
Cc: pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Gist indexes on int arrays
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 21:17:21 +0300 (MSK)
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.53.0303042116550.15273@ra.sai.msu.su> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303041751190.31970-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303041751190.31970-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
> On 4 Mar 2003, Greg Stark wrote:
>
> >
> > Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> writes:
> >
> > > Moreover if your array element positions that you want to compare
> > > against(e.g attr_a[1], or attr_b[n], where n is the last element) are
> > > known, then you could have a function "first" that returns
> > > the first element ...
> >
> > Except that's precisely what I'm *not* doing. I'm treating the arrays as sets
> > and looking for records where the set contains a given value. This is a
> > denormalized table generated nightly from fully normalized raw data.
> >
> > So to simplify it, the query might have clauses like:
> >
> > WHERE foo_id = 900
> > AND '{5}'::integer[] ~ attribute_set_array
> >
> > Right now I have a btree index on (foo_id).
> >
> > Can I have a GiST index on (foo_id, attribute_set_array) and have it be just
> > as fast at narrowing the search to just foo_id = 900 but also speed up the ~
> > operation?
>
> I am afraid you cant do that easily. (but you can follow recent
> discussions on the matter).
> int4 does not have an opclass that can cope with "gist".
no-no, just use contrib/btree_gist !
>
> >
> > Incidentally, it seems odd that there isn't an operator like ~ but optimized
> > specifically for searching for a single item. It seems awkward and possibly
> > unnecessarily slow to have to construct an array for the search parameter
> > every time.
> >
>
> What do you mean by "slow"?
>
> > --
> > greg
> >
>
>
Regards,
Oleg
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