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Re: The fastes way to sum array of integers

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2012/12/16 aasat <satriani@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> I sum values of array integers by query
>
> select sum(t)
>      from unnest(array[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0]) as t
>      cross join generate_series(1, 1000000);
>
> Total runtime: 10020.699 ms
>
> But simmilar method to count array's elements is dramatically faster
>
> select sum(array_length(array[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0], 1))
> from generate_series(1, 1000000)
>
> Total runtime: 464.042 ms
>
>
> It's as fast as simple query!
>
> select sum(1) from generate_series(1, 1000000)
> "Total runtime: 462.687 ms"
>
>
> It is possible that function e.g. array_sum written in C is as fast as
> bult-in array_length?
>

yes - specialized function can be significantly faster - and
aggregation can be calculated with significantly less iterations.

Regards

Pavel



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> Wojciech
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