On Thu, 1 May 2014 22:17:24 +0200, Szymon Guz <mabewlun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 1 May 2014 21:01, Seb <spluque@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 1 May 2014 20:22:26 +0200, > Szymon Guz <mabewlun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, several Gb is about 1GB, that's not too much. In case you meant >> 'several GB', that shouldn't be a problem as well. > Sorry, I meant several GB. Although that may not be a problem for > PostgreSQL, it is for post-processing the output file with other > tools. >> The first thing I'd do would be creating an index on the column used >> for dividing the data. Then I'd just use the command COPY with a >> proper select to save the data to a file. > I should have mentioned that this is quite a complex view (not a > table), which joins several other views of similar complexity. I'm > not sure whether indexes are useful/feasible in this case. I'll > investigate. > Yes, indexes can be used to speed up the view as well. Such a view is > nothing more than just a query. Help for CREATE INDEX says that its target should be a table or materialized view, so I'm guessing you mean indexes on the relevant fields of the underlying tables. In that case, I already have indexes on those, especially the timestamp fields which are the ones that are used for the heavy query work. Thanks, -- Seb -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
