> Thank you very much for great sample.
> I tried to create testcase from this to match production db:
>
> 1.2 million orders
> 3.5 million order details
> 13400 products with char(20) as primary keys containing ean-13 codes
> mostly
> 3 last year data
> every order has usually 1..3 detail lines
> same product can appear multiple times in order
> products are queried by start of code
>
> This sample does not distribute products randomly between orders.
> How to change this so that every order contains 3 (or 1..6 ) random
> products?
> I tried to use random row sample from
> http://www.pgsql.cz/index.php/PostgreSQL_SQL_Tricks-i
>
> but in this case constant product is returned always. It seems than
> query containing randon() is executed only once.
You could try writing a plpgsql function which would generate the data
set.
Or you could use your existing data set.
By the way, a simple way to de-bloat your big table without blocking
would be this :
- stop all inserts and updates
- begin
- create table new like old table
- insert into new select * from old (order by perhaps)
- create indexes
- rename new into old
- commit
If this is just a reporting database where you insert a batch of new data
every day, for instance, that's very easy to do. If it's OLTP, then, no.
