Re: Help with rewriting query

How about
SELECT p_id, f_id
FROM
person as p
LEFT JOIN
(SELECT f.p_id, max(f.id), f_item
FROM food) as f
ON p.p_id = f.p_id

Create an index on Food (p_id, seq #)

This may not gain any performance, but worth a try. I don't have any
data similar to this to test it on. Let us know.

I assume that the food id is a sequential number across all people.
Have you thought of a date field and a number representing what meal was
last eaten, i.e. 1= breakfast, 2 = mid morning snack etc. Or a date
field and the food id code?

Junaili Lie wrote:

>Hi,
>The suggested query below took forever when I tried it.
>In addition, as suggested by Tobias, I also tried to create index on
>food(p_id, id), but still no goal (same query plan).
>Here is the explain:
>TEST1=# explain select f.p_id, max(f.id) from Food f, Person p where
>(f.p_id = p.id) group by p.id;
> QUERY PLAN
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> GroupAggregate (cost=0.00..214585.51 rows=569 width=16)
> -> Merge Join (cost=0.00..200163.50 rows=2884117 width=16)
> Merge Cond: ("outer".id = "inner".p_id)
> -> Index Scan using person_pkey on person p
>(cost=0.00..25.17 rows=569 width=8)
> -> Index Scan using person_id_food_index on food f
>(cost=0.00..164085.54 rows=2884117 width=16)
>(5 rows)
>
>
>
>
>TEST1=# explain select p.id, (Select f.id from food f where
>f.p_id=p.id order by f.id desc limit 1) from person p;
> QUERY PLAN
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Seq Scan on Person p (cost=100000000.00..100007015.24 rows=569 width=8)
> SubPlan
> -> Limit (cost=0.00..12.31 rows=1 width=8)
> -> Index Scan Backward using food_pkey on food f
>(cost=0.00..111261.90 rows=9042 width=8)
> Filter: (p_id = $0)
>(5 rows)
>
>any ideas or suggestions is appreciate.
>
>
>On 6/8/05, Tobias Brox <tobias(at)nordicbet(dot)com> wrote:
>
>
>>[Junaili Lie - Wed at 12:34:32PM -0700]
>>
>>
>>>select f.p_id, max(f.id) from person p, food f where p.id=f.p_id group
>>>by f.p_id will work.
>>>But I understand this is not the most efficient way. Is there another
>>>way to rewrite this query? (maybe one that involves order by desc
>>>limit 1)
>>>
>>>
>>eventually, try something like
>>
>> select p.id,(select f.id from food f where f.p_id=p.id order by f.id desc limit 1)
>> from person p
>>
>>not tested, no warranties.
>>
>>Since subqueries can be inefficient, use "explain analyze" to see which one
>>is actually better.
>>
>>This issue will be solved in future versions of postgresql.
>>
>>--
>>Tobias Brox, +47-91700050
>>Tallinn
>>
>>
>>
>
>---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
>TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your
> joining column's datatypes do not match
>
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