On Thu, 1 May 2014 20:22:26 +0200, Szymon Guz <mabewlun@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, several Gb is about 1GB, that's not too much. In case you meant > 'several GB', that shouldn't be a problem as well.
Sorry, I meant several GB. Although that may not be a problem for PostgreSQL, it is for post-processing the output file with other tools.
> The first thing I'd do would be creating an index on the column used > for dividing the data. Then I'd just use the command COPY with a > proper select to save the data to a file.
I should have mentioned that this is quite a complex view (not a table), which joins several other views of similar complexity. I'm not sure whether indexes are useful/feasible in this case. I'll investigate.
Yes, indexes can be used to speed up the view as well. Such a view is nothing more than just a query.