Re: statement-level trigger sample out there?

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 04:04:54PM +0100, Christian Kindler wrote:
> I have a realy big table (> 2'000'000 records). every second there are several inserts and updates. the thing is i need a last row reference depending on a foreing_key.
>
> something like this:
>
> id, foreign_key, last_id, value1, value1, date
> >1<, 3, null, 12, 13, 2007-01-01
> >2<, 4, null, 11, 10, 2007-01-01
> 4, 3, >1<, 12, 13, 2007-01-02
> 5, 4, >2<, 11, 10, 2007-01-02
> ...
>
> of course the sequence can have holes so I have to calculate the real last row id. for now i calculate for each row by invoking a "select max(id) where foreign_key = $1" but this cost a lot of performance. I could do this easily with one update for the whole query - if i could know which foreign_key and which date range was performed.

create index q on table (foreing_key, id);
and then:
select max(id) from table where foreing_key = ?;
should be very fast.
if it is not:
select id from table where foreing_key = ? order by foreing_key desc, id desc limit 1;

will be fast.

of course - remember about vacuum/analyze.

depesz

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