Re: Speed Up Offset and Limit Clause

I am creating an application that gets the value of a large table and write
it to a file.

Why I want to use offset and limit is for me to create a threaded
application so that they will not get the same results.

For example:

Thread 1 : gets offset 0 limit 5000
Thread 2 : gets offset 5000 limit 5000
Thread 3 : gets offset 10000 limit 5000

And so on...

Would there be any other faster way than what It thought?

-----Original Message-----
From: PFC [mailto:lists(at)peufeu(dot)com]
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 7:06 AM
To: Christian Paul Cosinas; pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Speed Up Offset and Limit Clause

Why do you want to use it this way ?
Explain what you want to do, there probably is another faster
solution...

On Thu, 11 May 2006 16:45:33 +0200, Christian Paul Cosinas
<cpc(at)cybees(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> How can I speed up my server's performance when I use offset and limit
> clause.
>
> For example I have a query:
> SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY id, name OFFSET 100000 LIMIT 10000
>
> This query takes a long time about more than 2 minutes.
>
> If my query is:
> SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY id, name OFFSET 50000 LIMIT 10000
> It takes about 2 seconds.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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