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> However there's a lot more scope for improving a query along these
> lines, like adding indexes, or CLUSTERing on an index. It depends
> what other queries you are wanting to run.
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> I don't know how much update/insert activity there will be on your
> database. However, if you were to add an index on the URL on both
> tables, then CLUSTER both tables on those indexes, and ANALYSE, then
> this query should run as a merge join, and be pretty quick.
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> However, this is always going to be a long-running query, because it
> accesses at least one whole table scan of a large table.
>
> Matthew
There are already indexes on the url columns. I didn't cluster yet but
this is a pretty good idea, thanks. There will be no updates or
inserts. It's static data for research purposes.
moritz