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Subject: Re: [SQL] statement-level trigger sample out there?
From: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz () depesz ! com>
Date: 2007-11-30 9:41:46
Message-ID: 20071130094146.GA10972 () depesz ! com
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On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 04:04:54PM +0100, Christian Kindler wrote:
> I have a realy big table (> 2'000'000 records). every second there are several \
> inserts and updates. the thing is i need a last row reference depending on a \
> foreing_key.
> something like this:
>
> id, foreign_key, last_id, value1, value1, date
> > 1<, 3, null, 12, 13, 2007-01-01
> > 2<, 4, null, 11, 10, 2007-01-01
> 4, 3, >1<, 12, 13, 2007-01-02
> 5, 4, >2<, 11, 10, 2007-01-02
> ...
>
> of course the sequence can have holes so I have to calculate the real last row id. \
> for now i calculate for each row by invoking a "select max(id) where foreign_key = \
> $1" but this cost a lot of performance. I could do this easily with one update for \
> the whole query - if i could know which foreign_key and which date range was \
> performed.
create index q on table (foreing_key, id);
and then:
select max(id) from table where foreing_key = ?;
should be very fast.
if it is not:
select id from table where foreing_key = ? order by foreing_key desc, id desc limit \
1;
will be fast.
of course - remember about vacuum/analyze.
depesz
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