Re: query planner and scanning methods

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Colin Copeland <copelco@caktusgroup.com> wrote:

>>> dimension=# EXPLAIN ANALYZE
>>> SELECT   DISTINCT ON ("dimension_book"."call")
>>>       "dimension_book"."title"
>>> FROM     "dimension_book"
>>>       INNER JOIN "dimension_library_books"
>>>         ON ("dimension_book"."id" = "dimension_library_books"."book_id")
>>> WHERE    ("dimension_book"."call" >= 'PA0000'
>>>        AND "dimension_library_books"."library_id" IN (12,15,20))
>>> ORDER BY "dimension_book"."call" ASC
>>> LIMIT 10 OFFSET 100;

> Yes, I was thinking about this too. How would one generate a list of pages
> from this, though? I can't predict values of dimension_book.call (it's not a
> serial number).

I can think of one very ugly way to get the first record for each
page.  Hopefully, you will not need to generate these list pages very
often.  Also, you could probably refine the following query in a
couple of ways to improve performance.

SELECT A."dimension_book"."call", SUM( B."dimension_book"."call" ) AS
OrderedRowNbr
FROM ( your_above_query_without_the_limits ) AS A
INNER JOIN ( your_above_query_without_the_limits ) AS B
ON A."dimension_book"."call" >= B."dimension_book"."call"
ORDER BY A."dimension_book"."call"
HAVING SUM( A."dimension_book"."call" ) % 10 = 0;


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