by the way, this reminds me: I just ran a performance study at a company doing
an oracle-to-postgres conversion, and FYI converting from numeric and decimal
to integer/bigint/real saved roughly 3x on space and 2x on performance.
Obviously, YMMV.
adam
Tom Lane wrote:
> Marc Cousin <mcousin@sigma.fr> writes:
>
>>I'm having trouble with a (quite big) query, and can't find a way to make it
>>faster.
>
>
> Seems like it might help if the thing could use a HashAggregate instead
> of sort/group. Numeric is not hashable, so having those TO_NUMBER
> constants in GROUP BY destroys this option instantly ... but why in the
> world are you grouping by constants anyway? You didn't say what the
> datatypes of the other columns were...
>
> regards, tom lane
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