From: | Dawid Kuroczko <qnex42(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Columns into rows. |
Date: | 2005-01-13 10:26:04 |
Message-ID: | 758d5e7f05011302265be7e12a@mail.gmail.com |
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I'm working with a quite flat table schema (think: mySQL ;)),
and I want to divide it into two tables.
Lets start with how it looks now:
CREATE TABLE old_table (
id serial PRIMARY KEY,
body text,
path_a varchar(1024),
gendate_a date,
path_bb varchar(1024),
gendate_bb date,
path_ccc varchar(1024),
gendate_ccc date
);
I want to have:
CREATE TABLE new_table (
id serial PRIMARY KEY,
body text
);
CREATE TABLE new_table_paths (
id integer NOT NULL REFERENCES (new_table),
pathtype NOT NULL varchar(10),
path varchar(1024),
gendate date,
PRIMARY KEY(id,pathtype)
);
...what I'm looking for is how to, most efficiently
write a join between new_table and new_table_paths
so it looks like old_table (for compatibility (for other
people)).
I'm thinking about a trigger on schema-table
(with pathtypes), which would automagically update
view whenever schema-table is updated (new pathtype
(like 'a', 'bb', 'ccc')) is added/removed); but this is
implementation.
Now, for the join.
I can write:
SELECT * FROM (SELECT id, path AS path_a FROM new_table_paths WHERE id
= <<NUM>> AND pathtype = 'a') AS a NATURAL FULL OUTER JOIN (SELECT id,
path AS path_bb FROM new_table_paths WHERE id = <<NUM>> AND pathtype =
'bb') AS bb; [ and so on... ]
And its fast; however if I move WHERE id = <<NUM>> outside selects
(for views), it first "materializes" old layout, and then selects
id... total waste.
SELECT * FROM (SELECT id, path AS path_a FROM new_table_paths WHERE
pathtype = 'a') AS a NATURAL FULL OUTER JOIN (SELECT id, path AS
path_bb FROM new_table_paths WHERE pathtype = 'bb') AS bb WHERE id =
<<NUM>>;
I wonder if you know other way to write this join so it has good performace?
Once again, I need a SELECT since I want a VIEW. :-)
Regards,
Dawid
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