Re: Alphabetic Pager Class

chris smith escribió:
> On 6/21/07, Dani Castaños <dcastanos@androme.es> wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I'm trying to build an alphabetic pager class. For instance, an address
>> book ordered by the Last Name where only results begining with A are
>> shown, and A - B - C - D - ... links below to change the letter which
>> i'm filtering for.
>> The point is I don't want to have enabled those links wich have no
>> occurrences in them. So, I'm wondering which is the best way to do the
>> query.
>>
>> My first thought to know how many results are there for each, is to do
>> something like:
>> SELECT COUNT(field) FROM table WHERE UPPER( field )  LIKE UPPER( 'A%' );
>> SELECT COUNT(field) FROM table WHERE UPPER( field )  LIKE UPPER( 'B%' );
>> SELECT COUNT(field) FROM table WHERE UPPER( field )  LIKE UPPER( 'C%' );
>
> select count(*), upper(substr(field, 1, 1)) from table group by
> upper(substr(field, 1, 1));
>
Thanks chris!

This is just what i needed!
I got another solution, but I've used EXPLAIN ANALYZE, and yours is better:

EXPLAIN ANALYZE select chr(x), count(1) from generate_series(32,90) x,
sip_customer_services where upper(substring
(sip_customer_services.service_name from 1 for 1)) = chr(x) group by 1;
                                                             QUERY PLAN

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 HashAggregate  (cost=37.00..39.25 rows=150 width=4) (actual
time=1.652..1.716 rows=13 loops=1)
   ->  Hash Join  (cost=9.38..36.25 rows=150 width=4) (actual
time=0.979..1.490 rows=18 loops=1)
         Hash Cond: (chr("outer".x) =
upper("substring"(("inner".service_name)::text, 1, 1)))
         ->  Function Scan on generate_series x  (cost=0.00..12.50
rows=1000 width=4) (actual time=0.114..0.332 rows=59 loops=1)
         ->  Hash  (cost=9.30..9.30 rows=30 width=10) (actual
time=0.647..0.647 rows=18 loops=1)
               ->  Seq Scan on sip_customer_services  (cost=0.00..9.30
rows=30 width=10) (actual time=0.295..0.442 rows=18 loops=1)
 Total runtime: 2.147 ms
(7 rows)

test=# EXPLAIN ANALYZE select count(*), upper(substr(service_name, 1,
1)) from sip_customer_services group by upper(substr(service_name, 1,1));
                                                            QUERY PLAN

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 HashAggregate  (cost=9.60..10.13 rows=30 width=10) (actual
time=0.704..0.766 rows=13 loops=1)
   ->  Seq Scan on sip_customer_services  (cost=0.00..9.45 rows=30
width=10) (actual time=0.332..0.530 rows=18 loops=1)
 Total runtime: 1.065 ms
(3 rows);