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To: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Long running time for query
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 16:33:35 -0400
From: Brian Gallew <bg11@eden.as.cmu.edu>
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The following query take ~588 seconds to run:

retrieve (c.lname, c.fname, count = cust_freq_count(c.id)) 
        from c in Customer 
        sort by count, lname, fname

where cust_freq_count is defined as

define function cust_freq_count \
(language = "postquel", returntype = int4)\
arg is (int4)\
as "retrieve (count = count{Call.callerrn where Call.callerrn = $1})

Doing the same thing in tclpqx with:

retrieve (c.callerrn) from c in Call sort by callerrn
<retrieve lines, reduce list/produce count values>
retrieve (c.id, c.fname, c.lname) from c in Customer sort by id
<retrieve values, join lists>

takes ~38 seconds.  Perhaps I'm stupid, but shouldn't this be faster in the 
backend, rather than in a scripting language?  If anyone wants to see the 
complete code, I=ll be happy to forward it!

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