Miroslav Šulc wrote: > is there on the net any general howto on SQL query optimizations? We > have recently moved our project from MySQL to PostgreSQL and are > having problem with one of our queries.
I doubt that there is a generic documentation on SQL optimization, because this heavily depends on the particular implementation that you are using. > The EXPLAIN command is surely > useful but I don't know how to read it and how to use the output to > optimize the query so I'm looking for some intro that could help me. You should probably start with the Performance Tips chapter in the PostgreSQL documentation. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])