Re: Is there anything I should watch out for when creating temporary tables with psycopg2?

On 12/08/11 19:59, W. Matthew Wilson wrote:
> I'm breaking one gigantic query into several temporary tables and,
> then I'll join those and then do a select.
>
> Is there anything I should watch out for?
>
> Also, what are some other good methods to reduce gigantic queries into
> manageable amounts?

It depends on what you want. Speed? To easily manage query SQL? Here we
don't use temporary table but table-returning SQL procedures (not
plpgsql, just plain sql) and then do something like:

SELECT * FROM procedure1(customer_id, date) A, procedure2(...) B
 WHERE A.id = B.id ...

and so on.

federico

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