Re: PLEASE GOD HELP US!

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On Friday 01 October 2004 01:26 pm, Shane | SkinnyCorp wrote:
> Okay, just so no one posts about this again...
>
> the 'ORDER BY t.status=5,lastreply' clause is meant to float the threads
> with a status of '5' to the top of the list... it is NOT meant to only grab
> threads where the status = 5. Oh and believe me, when I take this out of
> the query, it CERTAINLY doesn't add any more than possible 1/4 of a
> millesecond to the speed of the SELECT statement.
>

One quick idea that comes to my head without knowing your database structure
(which would be neccessary to do this properly) is:
use a serial field as row key (int4 with a sequence as default)
in your query grab the current value from the sequence, subtract 25 and select
all records with a key larger than that number.
Et voila: you only select 25 records with a where clause that will use an
index properly. I bet that runs in a couple of milliseconds.

BTW: You're asking and complaining about a "lagging database". You think
nothing you did is at fault. Why then ask in the first place if you don't
want to hear the answers?
I've been working with databases long before postgres was born (over 23
years). I still ask questions on this list and usually get good responses.

UC

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