Re: Many, many materialised views - Performance?

From: Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
Cc: Toby Corkindale <toby(dot)corkindale(at)strategicdata(dot)com(dot)au>, Alban Hertroys <haramrae(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Many, many materialised views - Performance?
Date: 2013-10-09 11:35:12
Message-ID: 20131009073512.05fc3918e1902aa65d47157b@potentialtech.com
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On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 19:08:45 -0700 (PDT) Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> wrote:

> > In this instance, we have a lot of queries that build certain aggregate
> > results, which are very slow. The queries were initially all implemented
> > as views, but then we started doing a type of materialising of our own,
> > turning them into tables with CREATE TABLE AS SELECT ....
> > This does make the results very fast to access now, but the side effect
> > is a vast number of (very small) tables.

I missed the start of this thread, so apologies if my suggestion is off-base.

When there are lots of tables, I've seen performance improvements from
distributing the tables through schemas. It seems to improve name
resolution performance.

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Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com>

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