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user711270
user711270

Reputation: 117

PostgreSQL: select count and maximum from two tables

I've got two tables linked by a common ID column like here:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS names (
    uid BIGSERIAL,
    name VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY (uid)
);
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS texts (
    name_uid BIGINT NOT NULL REFERENCES names,
    timestamp TIMESTAMP NOT NULL,
    some_value TEXT NULL
);

And here we've got some data to play around:

INSERT INTO names VALUES ( 0, '1/a' );
INSERT INTO names VALUES ( 1, '1/b' );
INSERT INTO names VALUES ( 2, '2/c' );
INSERT INTO names VALUES ( 3, '3/d' );
INSERT INTO names VALUES ( 4, '3/e' );
INSERT INTO names VALUES ( 5, '3/f' );
INSERT INTO texts VALUES ( 0, '2018-01-01 00:00:00', 'text...' );
INSERT INTO texts VALUES ( 1, '2018-01-02 00:00:00', 'text...' );
INSERT INTO texts VALUES ( 2, '2018-02-01 00:00:00', 'text...' );
INSERT INTO texts VALUES ( 2, '2018-02-02 00:00:00', 'text...' );
INSERT INTO texts VALUES ( 3, '2018-03-01 00:00:00', 'text...' );
INSERT INTO texts VALUES ( 3, '2018-06-01 00:00:00', 'text...' );
INSERT INTO texts VALUES ( 4, '2018-06-02 00:00:00', 'text...' );
INSERT INTO texts VALUES ( 5, '2018-06-03 00:00:00', 'text...' );

What I need now is to apply the following logical rules

This can be achieved with the following query:

SELECT substring(names.name, '[^/]+' ) AS name_prefix, COALESCE( sum( text_counts.count ), 0) AS counter, max(text_timestamps.timestamp) AS timestamp
FROM names
LEFT JOIN (
    SELECT texts.name_uid, count(*)
    FROM texts
    WHERE texts.timestamp > '2018-05-01 00:00:00'
    GROUP BY texts.name_uid
) text_counts ON text_counts.name_uid = names.uid
LEFT JOIN(
    SELECT texts.name_uid, max(texts.timestamp) AS timestamp
    FROM texts
    GROUP BY texts.name_uid
) text_timestamps ON text_timestamps.name_uid = names.uid
WHERE names.name SIMILAR TO '1%|3%'
GROUP BY name_prefix

However, this query is quite slow. So I tried to come up with a better solution, but failed so far. What I've got is this:

SELECT name_info.name_prefix, count(*) AS counter, max(timestamp) AS timestamp
FROM texts
RIGHT JOIN (
    SELECT names.uid, substring(names.name, '[^/]+' ) AS name_prefix
    FROM names
    WHERE names.name SIMILAR TO '1%|3%'
) name_info ON name_info.uid = texts.name_uid
WHERE texts.timestamp > '2018-05-01 00:00:00'
GROUP BY name_info.name_prefix

Compared to the fist solution, this is very fast. The problem is, that now rows with a count of zero are missing form the result.

My question now is how craft a query that offers a performance close to query 2 two but includes the rows with a count of zero in the result

Some contextual information: I'm working with PostgreSQL 10 and the table texts has about a million times more rows than the table names. In fact, texts is even partitioned in the real world, but I decided to skip this for the example here.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1140

Answers (1)

klin
klin

Reputation: 121594

The right join in the second query acts like an inner join because of the timestamp condition in the WHERE clause. Remove the condition and use the count(*) aggregate with FILTER:

SELECT 
    name_info.name_prefix, 
    count(*) FILTER (WHERE texts.timestamp > '2018-05-01 00:00:00') AS counter, 
    max(timestamp) AS timestamp
FROM texts
RIGHT JOIN (
    SELECT names.uid, substring(names.name, '[^/]+' ) AS name_prefix
    FROM names
    WHERE names.name SIMILAR TO '1%|3%'
    ) name_info ON name_info.uid = texts.name_uid 
GROUP BY name_info.name_prefix;

DbFiddle.

You can also try two-stage grouping, e.g.:

select 
    name_prefix, 
    sum(counter) as counter, 
    max(timestamp) as timestamp
from (
    select 
        substring(name, '[^/]+' ) as name_prefix,
        sum((timestamp > '2018-05-01 00:00:00')::int) as counter,
        max(timestamp) as timestamp
    from texts
    join names on name_uid = uid
    where name similar to '1%|3%'
    group by uid
    ) s
group by name_prefix

Upvotes: 1

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