Re: Problem search on text arrays, using the overlaps (&&) operator

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--- On Wed, 7/8/09, John Cheng <jlcheng@ymail.com> wrote:

> From: John Cheng <jlcheng@ymail.com>
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Problem search on text arrays, using the overlaps (&&) operator
> To: "nha" <lyondif02@free.fr>
> Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 4:24 PM
> Hi nha,
>
> I will try out your suggestion about a materialized view. I
> had never even thought about trying it.
>
> As luck would have it, I had to try out these tests on a
> different database today, which resulted in a different
> query plan that executed both forms in the same time. 
> This different plan used a merge join instead of a hash
> join. I will research this are more to see if I learn
> anything new.
>
> You also pointed out that my queries (reports) are simply
> reporting off of a lot of data. Perhaps I need to see if the
> windowing functions in 8.4 can help improve things, or
> perhaps try to partition the data. Unfortunately, these kind
> of changes will be bigger than I had expected.
>
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