On 07/24/2017 01:40 AM, PT wrote: > In this example you count approximately 40,000,000 values, which is > about 40% of the table. 4 000 000 (: > If you really need these queries to be faster, I would suggest > materializing the data, i.e. create a table like: > > CREATE TABLE id_counts ( > id BIGINT PRIMARY KEY, > num BIGINT > ) > > Then use a trigger or similar technique to keep id_counts in sync > with the id table. You can then run queries of the form: > > SELECT sum(num) FROM id_counts WHERE id IN :values: > > which I would wager houseboats will be significantly faster. I use count only for example because it uses seqscan. I want optimize IN-clause ;-). Thanks. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general