Re: optimize query with a maximum(date) extraction - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Dimitri
Subject Re: optimize query with a maximum(date) extraction
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Msg-id 5482c80a0709080100i266bc41ajae0b34825cc9af5e@mail.gmail.com
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In response to optimize query with a maximum(date) extraction  (JS Ubei <jsubei@yahoo.fr>)
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BTW, will it improve something if you change your index to "my_table(
id, the_date )"?

Rgds,
-Dimitri

On 9/5/07, JS Ubei <jsubei@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I need to improve a query like :
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> SELECT id, min(the_date), max(the_date) FROM my_table GROUP BY id;
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> Stupidly, I create a B-tree index on my_table(the_date), witch is logically
> not used in my query, because it's not with a constant ? isn't it ?
>
> I know that I can't create a function index with an aggregative function.
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> How I can do ?
>
> thanks,
>
> jsubei
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