Re: Pushing LIMIT into sub-queries of a UNION ALL? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Robert Klemme
Subject Re: Pushing LIMIT into sub-queries of a UNION ALL?
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In response to Pushing LIMIT into sub-queries of a UNION ALL?  (Dave Johansen <davejohansen@gmail.com>)
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Dave,

how often do you want to repeat that posting?  What about instead
replying to the answers you got so far?

Cheers

robert


On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Dave Johansen <davejohansen@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using Postgres 8.3 and I have an issue very closely related to the one
> described here:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-06/msg00488.php
>
> Basically, I have a VIEW which is a UNION ALL of two tables but when I do a
> select on the view using a LIMIT, it scans the entire tables and takes
> significantly longer than writing out the query with the LIMITs in the
> sub-queries themselves. Is there a solution to get the view to perform like
> the sub-query version?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave



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