From: | Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex+lists-pgsql-sql(at)apartia(dot)org> |
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To: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | best paging strategies for large datasets? |
Date: | 2010-05-12 05:41:44 |
Message-ID: | 20100512054144.GA8762@apartia.fr |
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Hi,
I have a large dataset (page 1 at http://www.cruisefish.net/stat.md) and
am in the process of developping a pager to let users leaf through it
(30K rows).
Ideally I'd like to know when requesting any 'page' of data where I am
within the dataset: how many pages are available each way, etc.
Of course that can be done by doing a count(*) query before requesting a
limit/offset subset. But the main query is already quite slow, so I'd
like to minimize them.
But I am intrigued by window functions, especially the row_number() and
ntile(int) ones.
Adding "row_number() over (order by <reverse query>)" to my query will
return the total number of rows in the first row, letting my deduce the
number of pages remaining, etc. row_number() apparently adds very little
cost to the main query.
And ntile(buckets) seems nice too but I need the total row count for it
to contain a 'page' number: ntile(row_count/page_size).
What better "paging" strategies are out there?
Thanks,
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