On 6/10/10 12:34 PM, Anne Rosset wrote:
Jochen Erwied wrote:
Thursday, June 10, 2010, 8:36:08 PM you wrote:
psrdb=# (SELECT
psrdb(# MAX(item_rank.rank) AS maxRank
psrdb(# FROM
psrdb(# item_rank item_rank
psrdb(# WHERE
psrdb(# item_rank.project_id='proj2783'
psrdb(# AND item_rank.pf_id IS NULL
psrdb(#
psrdb(# )
psrdb-# ORDER BY
psrdb-# maxRank DESC;
Don't think it does really matter, but why do you sort a resultset
consisting of only one row?
Sorry, I should have removed the ORDER by (the full query has a union).
So without the ORDER by, here are the results:
psrdb=# SELECT
psrdb-# MAX(item_rank.rank) AS maxRank
psrdb-# FROM
psrdb-# item_rank item_rank
psrdb-# WHERE
psrdb-# item_rank.pf_id='plan1408';
maxrank
-------------
20504000000
(1 row)
Time: 1.516 ms
psrdb=# SELECT
psrdb-# MAX(item_rank.rank) AS maxRank
psrdb-# FROM
psrdb-# item_rank item_rank
psrdb-# WHERE
psrdb-# item_rank.project_id='proj2783'
psrdb-# AND item_rank.pf_id IS NULL;
maxrank
-------------
20200000000
(1 row)
Time: 13.177 ms
Is there anything that can be done for the second one?
Postgres normally doesn't index NULL values even if the column is indexed, so it has to do a table scan when your query includes an IS NULL condition. You need to create an index that includes the "IS NULL" condition.
create index item_rank_null_idx on item_rank(pf_id)
where item_rank.pf_id is null;
Craig
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