Re: Having problems with a 25 million row table on 8.1.3 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Aaron Evans
Subject Re: Having problems with a 25 million row table on 8.1.3
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Msg-id A074CAB0-0FF2-43AE-B75A-B66DE4BDD3AC@aarone.org
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In response to Having problems with a 25 million row table on 8.1.3  (Tony Caduto <tony_caduto@amsoftwaredesign.com>)
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try:

select tax_code from warehouse.sec_trans group by tax_code

there was a discussion about this on the pgsql-performance a while back:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2004-10/msg00053.php

-ae

On Apr 25, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Tony Caduto wrote:

> select DISTINCT tax_code from warehouse.sec_trans We let this run
> for 1/2 hour or so and canceled it.
>
> Then I tried select DISTINCT ON (tax_code) tax_code from
> warehouse.sec_trans

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