Hi all, I am writing a few pg/plsql and have no great experience, so i'm asking here. I need to obtain <X1>,<X2>,.. from N queryes like these: SELECT <X1> FROM tab GROUP BY <Y1> SELECT <X2> FROM tab GROUP BY <Y2> SELECT <X3> FROM tab WHERE C3 GROUP BY <Y3> [eventually ORDER BY Z3]; example: SELECT count(*),name FROM tab GROUP BY name; SELECT sum(seconds), job FROM tab WHERE status = 1 GROUP BY job; etc; Doing this way the table tab would be scanned once per SELECT (tab is a quite large table). Since it hurts to me the idea of repeating many queryes on the identical set of tuples I would like to write a stored procedure who produceses these results putting them into a few "temporary" tables, so i ask you: is there a way to obtain <X1>, <X2>, <X3> with a single tables scan? May you point me to an example? I hope i was clear enough explaining the problem. Thank you Stefano ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly