Re: Slow query problem - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Richard Huxton
Subject Re: Slow query problem
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Msg-id 200401090854.46480.dev@archonet.com
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In response to Re: Slow query problem  (Dennis Björklund <db@zigo.dhs.org>)
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On Friday 09 January 2004 07:29, Dennis Björklund wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Bradley Tate wrote:
> >
> > select invheadref, invprodref, sum(units)
> > from invtran
> > group by invheadref, invprodref

> For the above query, shouldn't you have one index for both columns
> (invheadref, invprodref). Then it should not need to sort at all to do the
> grouping and it should all be fast.

Not sure if that would make a difference here, since the whole table is being
read.

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd

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