On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Matthew Wakeling <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> genes = '{}'; >> next_new = 1; >> FOR loc IN SELECT location.* FROM location, gene WHERE location.subjectid = >> gene.id ORDER BY objectid, intermine_start, intermine_end LOOP >> genes[next_new] = loc; >> IF (next_new % 10000 = 0) THEN >> RAISE NOTICE 'Scanned % gene locations', next_new; >> END IF; >> next_new = next_new + 1; >> END LOOP; >> genes_size = coalesce(array_upper(genes, 1), 0); >> RAISE NOTICE 'Scanned % gene locations', genes_size; >> >> For 200,000 rows it takes 40 minutes. >> >> So, is there a way to dump the results of a query into an array quickly in >> plpgsql, or alternatively is there a way to read two results streams >> simultaneously? > > try this: > select array(SELECT location.* FROM location, gene WHERE > location.subjectid = gene.id ORDER BY objectid, intermine_start, > intermine_end)) into genes; one more time: select array(SELECT location FROM location, gene WHERE location.subjectid = gene.id ORDER BY objectid, intermine_start, intermine_end)) into genes; this will make array of location records. when you access the records to do the merge, make sure to use () noation: if (genes[x]).field > something then ... merlin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance