Re: faster output from php and postgres

I'm glad this came up, because I have the same type of problem. Except,
I don't see how a join can work... of course, I'm not really schooled in
this stuff.

I also have three tables: author, publication, and pub_auth.

There are multiple authors for some publications, so it is necessary to
check each publication selected for ALL authors. I'm doing this with a
foreach loop on the result of each publication key returned.

How would a join make this easier?

I'm browsing the pgsql-sql archives now, but that may take a week. I'm
not sure what to search for...

On Fri, 23 May 2003, scott.marlowe wrote:

> Dear god, I saw the word join in his explanation and didn't even read much
> after that. I thought he meant join as in join.
>
> Even so, I bet he's still doing something else wrong, I can loop across 50
> queries in a blink of an eye. Maybe he's disconnecting / reconnecting on
> every access, or worse, just connecting over and over.
>
> I've seen some crazy code in PHP when folks are just beginning. I think I
> wrote a bit of it, but that was back when kids got suspended for saying
> "I'm using PHP." (<- true story, a kid had a run in with a teacher /
> principle, and was nearly suspended for saying that.)
>
> On Fri, 23 May 2003, Lonnie VanZandt wrote:
>
> > The entire report should/could be a single SQL query with multi-table
> > joins and order by specifications - but I believe Mukta is doing
> > individual table queries and looping over result sets in the PHP code.
> > Seeing actual code will help...
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-php-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > [mailto:pgsql-php-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of scott.marlowe
> > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 10:04 AM
> > To: Mukta Telang
> > Cc: pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: Re: [PHP] faster output from php and postgres
> >
> >
> > It's probably just a slow query.
> >
> > Could you print out your query in PHP to the web browser, then cut and
> > paste it into the psql monitor to get an explain anaylze output?
> >
> > i.e.
> > psql dbname
> > #> explain analyze select .... rest of query goes here;
> >
> > And give us the output of that? Thanks.
> >
> > On Fri, 23 May 2003, Mukta Telang wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I am dealing with a database with many-to-many relation and have a php
> >
> > > script that joins these tables and displays the output. But the
> > > problem is that after entering some 50 records the output is very
> > > slow! I can count till 50 before the script produces the output!
> > > The complete description of the problem is written below..
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Mukta
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > description in detail:
> > >
> > >
> > > database part:
> > >
> > > Three tables: paper,author and author_paper
> > >
> > > "A paper has many authors and an author has many papers."
> > > In this way there is many to many relation.
> > >
> > > The attributes of paper are: paper_id (primary key),title,journal,year
> >
> > > etc
> > >
> > > The attributes of author are: author_id(primary key) and name
> > >
> > > The attributes of author_paper are: author_id ,paper_id and level (
> > > author with level=1 is the main author of the paper )
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > php part:
> > >
> > > For an author:
> > > 1. get author_id from author table
> > > 2. select all paper_ids from author_paper table
> > > 3. For each of the above selected paper_ids:
> > > a. print all the attributes of paper
> > > b. select all authors of the paper and print their names in
> > > the order of their "level"
> > >
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