Re: short-cutting if sum()>constant

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:09:40 +0100
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail@webthatworks.it> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:31 +0100
> Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail@webthatworks.it> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:47:18 +0100
> > Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello
> > > 
> > > I found one ugly trick. You can multiply lines and SUM > cons
> > > could be replaced limit clause:
> > 
> > The trick is really smart (and fun), kudos, really, it's always a
> > pleasure to read your solutions, thanks.
> > 
> > But as expected:
> 
> as unexpected...

As even more unexpected... when all row are >0 and most of them are
equal to 1 the generate_series performs appreciably better (roughly
15% faster).
And I think your version can be further optimised:
select count(*) from (select (generate_series(1,a))::int from
data limit 90000000) s;
This perform 30% faster.

So what's so slow in the plpgsql version?

Fortunately as expected when "enough" rows are >1 the for loop
solution perform much better.

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Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
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