On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 03:10:32PM -0500, Tony Caduto wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a client who has a 25 million row table that is used to keep
> track of financial security info.
> So far it has worked great, but today someone wanted to get all the tax
> codes(there are lot's of dupes) from the table.
> So we tried this:
>
> select DISTINCT tax_code from warehouse.sec_trans
> We let this run for 1/2 hour or so and canceled it.
What plan did it want to use (EXPLAIN query)? What version of
PostgreSQL? How many results are you expecting?
Have a nice day,
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