Re: [GENERAL] Using window functions to get the unpaginated count for paginated queries

2012-11-14 Thread Clemens Park
Thanks for the reply everyone. In my case, it looks like there is no real drawback then, since what used to happen is: SELECT a,b,c FROM table WHERE clauses OFFSET x LIMIT y; followed by: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ( SELECT a,b,c FROM table WHERE clauses ); (notice the lack of OFFSET and LIMIT)

Re: [GENERAL] Using window functions to get the unpaginated count for paginated queries

2012-11-14 Thread Albe Laurenz
Clemens Park wrote: > Recently, during a performance improvement sweep for an application at my company, one of the hotspots > that was discovered was pagination. > > In order to display the correct pagination links on the page, the pagination library we used (most > pagination libraries for that

Re: [GENERAL] using window-functions to get freshest value - how?

2009-11-20 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
Thom, depesz, silly, > SELECT DISTINCT ON (id_bf) id_bf, wert, letztespeicherung > FROM rfmitzeit > ORDER BY id_bf, letztespeicherung ASC; yes, that does work. I put it in the real world query (my example was reduced to the relevant parts), and it provides an impressive speedup (down from 2234 to

Re: [GENERAL] using window-functions to get freshest value - how?

2009-11-20 Thread Thom Brown
2009/11/20 silly > > and how would I use DISTINCT ON for this query? Please bear in mind, > > that there is more then one id_bf (just stopped the sample data with > > one of them) > > I posted the answer more than hour ago: > > SELECT DISTINCT ON (id_rf) * FROM rfmitzeit ORDER BY id_rf, > let

Re: [GENERAL] using window-functions to get freshest value - how?

2009-11-20 Thread silly8888
> and how would I use DISTINCT ON for this query? Please bear in mind, > that there is more then one id_bf (just stopped the sample data with > one of them) I posted the answer more than hour ago: SELECT DISTINCT ON (id_rf) * FROM rfmitzeit ORDER BY id_rf, letztespeicherung DESC; The equivalent

Re: [GENERAL] using window-functions to get freshest value - how?

2009-11-20 Thread A. Kretschmer
In response to Massa, Harald Armin : > > > Is it possible? How would the SQL utilizing WINDOW-functions look like? > > > > there is no point in using window functions in here - simply use > > "DISTINCT ON". > > and how would I use DISTINCT ON for this query? Please bear in mind, > that there is mo

Re: [GENERAL] using window-functions to get freshest value - how?

2009-11-20 Thread Thom Brown
2009/11/20 Massa, Harald Armin > > > Is it possible? How would the SQL utilizing WINDOW-functions look like? > > > > there is no point in using window functions in here - simply use > > "DISTINCT ON". > > and how would I use DISTINCT ON for this query? Please bear in mind, > that there is more th

Re: [GENERAL] using window-functions to get freshest value - how?

2009-11-20 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
> > Is it possible? How would the SQL utilizing WINDOW-functions look like? > > there is no point in using window functions in here - simply use > "DISTINCT ON". and how would I use DISTINCT ON for this query? Please bear in mind, that there is more then one id_bf (just stopped the sample data wit

Re: [GENERAL] using window-functions to get freshest value - how?

2009-11-20 Thread A. Kretschmer
In response to hubert depesz lubaczewski : > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:07:37AM +0100, Massa, Harald Armin wrote: > > Is it possible? How would the SQL utilizing WINDOW-functions look like? > > there is no point in using window functions in here - simply use > "DISTINCT ON". Right, but he want to

Re: [GENERAL] using window-functions to get freshest value - how?

2009-11-20 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Massa, Harald Armin, 20.11.2009 11:31: no, that does not work: "id_bf";"wert";"max" 98;"blue";"2009-11-10 00:00:00" 98;"red";"2009-11-10 00:00:00" result is: I get the date of the youngest value. My expected result is: 98;"red" (that is, the entry of "wert" that is youngest) Sorry then I mi

Re: [GENERAL] using window-functions to get freshest value - how?

2009-11-20 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:07:37AM +0100, Massa, Harald Armin wrote: > Is it possible? How would the SQL utilizing WINDOW-functions look like? there is no point in using window functions in here - simply use "DISTINCT ON". Best regards, depesz -- Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/depesz /

Re: [GENERAL] using window-functions to get freshest value - how?

2009-11-20 Thread silly8888
oops, I forgot the partition by. Here's the correct query: SELECT * FROM (SELECT *,row_number() OVER (PARTITION BY id_rf ORDER BY letztespeicherung DESC) FROM rfmitzeit) t WHERE row_number=1 You can also do it using SELECT DISTINCT ON: SELECT DISTINCT ON (id_rf) * FROM rfmitzeit ORDER BY id_rf,

Re: [GENERAL] using window-functions to get freshest value - how?

2009-11-20 Thread silly8888
SELECT * FROM (SELECT *,row_number() OVER (ORDER BY letztespeicherung DESC) FROM rfmitzeit) t WHERE row_number=1 On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Massa, Harald Armin wrote: >     id_bf,  wert, letztespeicherung: >>> >>>   98,  'blue', 2009-11-09 >>>   98,  'red', 2009-11-10 >>>     now I have a

Re: [GENERAL] using window-functions to get freshest value - how?

2009-11-20 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
id_bf, wert, letztespeicherung: > 98, 'blue', 2009-11-09 >> 98, 'red', 2009-11-10 >> now I have a select to get the "youngest value" for every id_bf: >> > > Not tested: > > SELECT id_bf, wert, > max(letztespeicherung) over (partition by id_bf) > FROM rfmitzeit > no, that

Re: [GENERAL] using window-functions to get freshest value - how?

2009-11-20 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Massa, Harald Armin, 20.11.2009 11:07: I have a table CREATE TABLE rfmitzeit ( id_rf inet NOT NULL, id_bf integer, wert text, letztespeicherung timestamp without time zone CONSTRAINT repofeld_id_rf PRIMARY KEY (id_rf), ); where for one id_bf there are stored mutliple values ("wert") at

Re: [GENERAL] using window functions

2009-03-17 Thread Daniel Manesajian
hinking my next step would be to build from source by grabbing the next daily snapshot. Is this the thing to do? Regards, Daniel > To: mane...@hotmail.com > CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] using window functions > Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:58:25 -0400

Re: [GENERAL] using window functions

2009-03-17 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Daniel Manesajian, 17.03.2009 04:33: Hi, I'm trying to get an advance taste of the window function feature that I believe is supposed to be in 8.4. I'm running 8.4devel snapshot (dated Jan-01 which seems kind of old) grabbed from the snapshot page on the postgresql website. When I try a si

Re: [GENERAL] using window functions

2009-03-16 Thread Tom Lane
Daniel Manesajian writes: > When I try a simple query "select avg(my_int) over (order by my_int rows > unbounded preceding) order by 1;" I get an error: > ERROR: syntax error at or near "over" You sure you're actually talking to the 8.4 server? Because that's exactly what you'd get if you trie