Jeremiah Jahn kirjutas K, 26.11.2003 kell 22:14:
> I was wondering if there is something I can do that would act similar to
> a index over more than one table.
>
> I have about 3 million people in my DB at the moment, they all have
> roles, and many of them have more than one name.
>
> for example, a Judge will only have one name, but a Litigant could have
> multiple aliases. Things go far to slow when I do a query on a judge
> named smith.
If you dont need all the judges named smith you could try to use LIMIT.
Have you run ANALYZE ? Why does DB think that there is only one judge
with name like SMITH% ?
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Hannu
P.S.
Always send EXPLAIN ANALYZE output if asking for advice on [PERFORM]
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Hannu