Re: store A LOT of 3-tuples for comparisons

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Moritz Onken wrote:
> I need to store a lot of 3-tuples of words (e.g. "he", "can", "drink"), order
> matters!
> The source is about 4 GB of these 3-tuples.
> I need to store them in a table and check whether one of them is already
> stored, and if that's the case to increment a column named "count" (or
> something).

My suggestion would be to use three varchar columns to store the 3-tuples.
You should then create a B-tree index on the three columns together.

> I thought of doing all the inserts without having an index and without doing
> the check whether the row is already there. After that I'd do a "group by"
> and count(*) on that table. Is this a good idea?

That sounds like the fastest way to do it, certainly.

Matthew

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