Re: Question regarding indices

Steve wrote:
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Datum: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:08:00 -0400
>> Von: Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
>> An: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
>> Betreff: Re: [SQL] Question regarding indices
> 
>> On 09/11/2010 08:29 AM, Steve wrote:
>>> I have a small question about the order of values in a query.
>>> Assume I have a table with the following fields:
>>>    uid INT,
>>>    data BIGINT,
>>>    hits INT
>>> And an unique index on (uid, data). I use libpq C API to query
>>> data from the table. The query is something like this:
>>> SELECT uid,data,hits FROM mytable WHERE uid=2
>>> AND data IN (2033,2499,590,19,201,659)
>>>
>>> Would the speed of the query be influenced if I would sort the data?
>> What do you mean by "sort the data"?  Which data?
>>
> I mean sorting the values in the brackets. Instead of:
> SELECT uid,data,hits FROM mytable WHERE uid=2 AND data IN (2033,2499,590,19,201,659)
> 
> I would then send this here:
> SELECT uid,data,hits FROM mytable WHERE uid=2 AND data IN (19,201,590,659,2033,2499)
> 
> Off course this is a small dataset but the query usually has thousands of elements and not only the above 6
elements.


If there will be thousands; why not create a temp table containing these 
values then join to table - might that be faster?