Hello list,
i was wondering is there is some way of speeding up results of a query in postgresql 8.3 (upgrading is not an option
forthe moment).
Basically this is a small function querying information_schema for tables, columns satisfying specific criteria :
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION xid_tables_cols(OUT table_name TEXT, OUT column_name TEXT, OUT data_type TEXT) RETURNS SETOF
record AS $$
DECLARE
BEGIN RETURN QUERY SELECT c.table_name::text,c.column_name::text,c.data_type::text FROM
information_schema.columnsc WHERE c.table_schema='public' AND c.table_name LIKE '%_tmp' AND c.data_type IN
('bytea','text') AND EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM information_schema.columns c2 WHERE c2.table_schema='public' AND
c2.table_name=c.table_nameAND c2.column_name='xid'); RETURN;
END;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql STABLE;
The whole point is to be able to calculate row/columns sizes based on data type, by automatically finding all those
tables that apply to our specific technique/architecture (all tables whose name end in _tmp, and in addition who have
atleast one column named "xid"). This query is slow in 8.3. In 9.2 this is a
non-issue.
The above structure rarely changes, it changes only when we add new tables, ending in _tmp, and also having a column
"xid".
So the aim here is to speed up this query. I could materialize the result in some table, that i would refresh over
nightvia cron,
i was just wandering if there was some better way. I already made the function STABLE with no performance gain.
I was also wondering if i could trick postgresql to think that the output is always the same by making it IMMUTABLE,
but this also gave no performance gain.
So, is there anything i could do, besides overnight materialization?
Thanx.
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Achilleas Mantzios