On 1/22/09, Igor Katson <descentspb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hannu Krosing wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 02:33 +0300, Igor Katson wrote: > > > > > >> So to say, give me the list of friends (not only their ID's, but all the > >> needed columns!) of given individual, which are in a given group. That > >> seems ok without plproxy, but with using it, I can't imagine how can I > >> form a nice query, or a function (or a set of plpgsql + plproxy > >> functions) to do the job. > >> > > > > You need to do it in two steps - first run a query on the partition the > > user is in to get list of friends ids, then run a second RUN ON ALL > > query with > > > > WHERE f.friend.id in (list of ids from f1) AND f.group_id = $2 > > > > to gather all friend info in parallel > > > > > > I was thinking about that. But I don't understand, how can I pass the > list of id's. Should I turn the output of a select into an array? How > then? What if the array gets hundreds of items long? Yes, array works fine. And if it's long, then let it be long... -- marko -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general