Hi, Brendan,
Brendan Curran wrote:
>> What prevents you from using an aggregate function?
>
> I guess I could actually obtain the results in an aggregate function and
> use those to maintain a summary table. There is a web view that requires
> 'as accurate as possible' numbers to be queried per group (all 40 groups
> are displayed on the same page) and so constant aggregates over the
> entire table would be a nightmare.
That sounds just like a case for GROUP BY and a materialized view.
Markus
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