I have two data tables AUTHORS and BOOKS, and one indirection table
AUTHOR_BOOKS which allow me to make n:m links. Now I want to create view
that allow user to select all books of specyfic author - user should use
query like this SELECT * FROM booksvw WHERE idauthor=xxx.
I know two queries that could solve my problem
1)SELECT * FROM books INNER JOIN authors_books ON
book.id=authors_books.idbook AND authors_books.idauthor=:xxx
Alternative I can use query
2)SELECT books.* FROM books WHERE id IN (SELECT authors_books.idbooks
FROM authors_books WHERE authors_books.idauthor=:xxx)
I think that second query is faster in my case (most of books have only
one author),
Logs :
1)
Merge Join (cost=17.13..756.15 rows=5 width=116) Merge Cond: ("outer".id = "inner".idbook) -> Index Scan using
book_pkeyon books (cost=0.00..709.89 rows=11626
width=116) -> Sort (cost=17.13..17.14 rows=5 width=4) Sort Key: autor_books.idbooks -> Index Scan using
autor_idxon autor_books (cost=0.00..17.07
rows=5 width=4) Index Cond: (idautor = 453)
2)Nested Loop (cost=17.08..415.67 rows=1 width=116) Join Filter: ("inner".id = "outer".idbook) -> HashAggregate
(cost=17.08..17.08rows=1 width=4) -> Index Scan using author_idx on autors_books
(cost=0.00..17.07 rows=5 width=4) Index Cond: (idauthor = 453) -> Seq Scan on books (cost=0.00..253.26
rows=11626width=116)
The first case I can easily transform to view. Second is harder. I don't
know if there are a possibility to transport clauses from view WHERE
part to sub selects. Is this possible?
James Kan
