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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Another ace in the hole is represented by temporary tables used for parts of the query. By default, a temporary table is dropped at the end of a Postgres session, but the behavior can be changed at the time of creation.

PostgreSQL itself can choose to materialize parts of the query during the query optimization phase, but sometimes, it fails to make the best choice for the query plan, either due to insufficient statistics, or because-as it can happen for large query plans, where genetic query optimization (GEQO) is used-it may have just overlooked some possible query plans.

If you think that materializing (separately preparing) some parts of the query is a good idea, you can do it using a temporary table, simply by running ...

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