Re: query efficiency - Can I speed it up? - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Sean Davis
Subject Re: query efficiency - Can I speed it up?
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Msg-id 200702011329.56626.sdavis2@mail.nih.gov
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In response to Re: query efficiency - Can I speed it up?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thursday 01 February 2007 13:28, Tom Lane wrote:
> Sean Davis <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov> writes:
> > You might think about full-text searching of the descriptions.  It may be
> > quite a bit faster than a "like" search.  It may be worth looking.
>
> It's not the LIKE search that's her problem though --- the time is going
> into fetching the matching rows from the other table.
>
> If the "go" table becomes large then it'd be time to worry about that,
> but right now it's only costing her 80 msec to seqscan it...

Oops.  Thanks.

Sean

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