On Thu, 1 May 2014 20:22:26 +0200,
Szymon Guz <mabewlun(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi, several Gb is about 1GB, that's not too much. In case you meant
> 'several GB', that shouldn't be a problem as well.
Sorry, I meant several GB. Although that may not be a problem for
PostgreSQL, it is for post-processing the output file with other tools.
> The first thing I'd do would be creating an index on the column used
> for dividing the data. Then I'd just use the command COPY with a
> proper select to save the data to a file.
I should have mentioned that this is quite a complex view (not a table),
which joins several other views of similar complexity. I'm not sure
whether indexes are useful/feasible in this case. I'll investigate.
Thanks,
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Seb