Re: Materializing a sequential scan

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:37:25AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> That mdb_gruppekobling_transitiv_tillukning function looks awfully
> grotty ... how many rows does it return, and how long does it take to
> run by itself? How often does its temp table get vacuumed? A quick
> band-aid might be to use TRUNCATE instead of DELETE FROM to clean the
> table ... but if I were you I'd try to rewrite the function entirely.

It returns 752 rows, and the table is autovacuumed. If I run the queries
manually, they take ~15ms in all -- for some odd reason, the function in itself
varies between 40 and 500ms, though...

I tried using TRUNCATE earlier, but if anything, it made the function slower
(might just have been zero difference, though). I also had written the
function differently (using a series of depth-first searches), but it was
awfully slow even after a lot of tweaking, so it was not really worth it...

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