On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 08:49:00 -0300, lucas@presserv.org wrote:
> Yes,
> I tried it. In this table the query works fine, but in a big table
> (with aprox.
> 200.000 records) the query performace is very bad.
> I tried it (in the example table):
> SELECT *,(select sum(value) from tb1 as tb1_2 where tb1_2.id<=tb1_1.id) as
> subtot from tb1 as tb1_1 order by id;
>
> In a small table it works fine, but in a bigger table it works very slow.
Not surprising, since this is probably O(n^2).
> What is the better way??? Is there a sum() function that works how I want???
Having the application do the running sum is probably the best way to do it.
