比多个 SELECT 语句更好的方法?

Better way than multiple SELECT statements?

我正在创建一个显示饼图的网络应用程序。为了在单个 HTTP 请求中从 PostgreSQL 9.3 数据库中获取图表的所有数据,我将多个 SELECT 语句与 UNION ALL 组合在一起——这里是一部分:

SELECT 'spf' as type, COUNT(*)
    FROM (SELECT cai.id
          FROM common_activityinstance cai
          JOIN common_activityinstance_settings cais ON cai.id = cais.activityinstance_id
          JOIN common_activitysetting cas ON cas.id = cais.id
          JOIN quizzes_quiz q ON q.id = cai.activity_id
          WHERE cai.end_time::date = '2015-09-12'
          AND q.name != 'Exit Ticket Quiz'
          AND cai.activity_type = 'QZ'
          AND (cas.key = 'disable_student_nav' AND cas.value = 'True'
            OR cas.key = 'pacing' AND cas.value = 'student')
          GROUP BY cai.id
          HAVING COUNT(cai.id) = 2) sub
UNION ALL
SELECT 'spn' as type, COUNT(*)
    FROM common_activityinstance cai
    JOIN common_activityinstance_settings cais ON cai.id = cais.activityinstance_id
    JOIN common_activitysetting cas ON cas.id = cais.id
    WHERE cai.end_time::date = '2015-09-12'
    AND cai.activity_type = 'QZ'
    AND cas.key = 'disable_student_nav'
    AND cas.value = 'False'
UNION ALL
SELECT 'tp' as type, COUNT(*)
    FROM (SELECT cai.id 
          FROM common_activityinstance cai
          JOIN common_activityinstance_settings cais ON cai.id = cais.activityinstance_id
          JOIN common_activitysetting cas ON cas.id = cais.id
          WHERE cai.end_time::date = '2015-09-12'
          AND cai.activity_type = 'QZ'
          AND cas.key = 'pacing' AND cas.value = 'teacher') sub;

这会产生一个很好的小响应以发送回客户端:

 type |  count 
------+---------
 spf  |  100153
 spn  |   96402
 tp   |   84211

我想知道是否可以提高我的查询效率。每个 SELECT 语句主要使用相同的 JOIN 操作。有没有办法不为每个新的 SELECT?
重复 JOIN 我实际上更喜欢单行 3 列。

或者,总的来说,是否有一些与我正在做的完全不同但更好的方法?

这是部分答案。后两个可以合并为一个查询:

SELECT (case when key = 'disable_student_nav' then 'spn' 
             when key = 'pacing' then 'tp'
        end) as type, COUNT(*)
FROM common_activityinstance cai JOIN
     common_activityinstance_settings cais
     ON cai.id = cais.activityinstance_id JOIN
     common_activitysetting cas
     ON cas.id = cais.id
WHERE cai.end_time::date = '2015-09-12' AND cai.activity_type = 'QZ' AND
      (key, value) in (('disable_student_nav', 'False'), ('pacing', 'teacher'))
GROUP BY type

不知道有没有办法把第一组放到类似的逻辑中。例如,如果 QZ 条件可以应用于所有三个组,那么添加第一组就很容易了。

您可以将 case 与每个类型的 where 子句中的条件一起使用。但是,第一个查询的 having 条件不会被这样满足。

select type, count(*) as count
from
(
SELECT cai.id,
case when q.name!= 'Exit Ticket Quiz' and key = 'disable_student_nav' 
AND value = 'True' OR key = 'pacing' AND value = 'student' then 'spf'
     when key = 'disable_student_nav' AND value = 'False' then 'spn'
     when key = 'pacing' AND value = 'teacher' then 'tp'
 end as type
      FROM common_activityinstance cai
      JOIN common_activityinstance_settings cais ON cai.id = cais.activityinstance_id
      JOIN common_activitysetting cas ON cas.id = cais.id
      JOIN quizzes_quiz q ON q.id = cai.activity_id
      WHERE cai.end_time::date = '2015-09-12'
      AND q.name != 'Exit Ticket Quiz'
      AND cai.activity_type = 'QZ'
) t
group by type

没有办法使该查询更有效率,不。您可以设置视图或其他任何内容,但它总是必须 运行 通过它三次。但是您可以通过在 PHP 或 PL/SQL 或其他任何地方进行一些 post 处理来解决问题。从一个更简单的查询开始,像这样:

SELECT COUNT(*), cai.id, q.name, 键, 值 FROM common_activityinstance 蔡 JOIN common_activityinstance_settings cais ON cai.id = cais.activityinstance_id JOIN common_activitysetting cas ON cas.id = cais.id WHERE cai.end_time::date = '2015-09-12' 按 cai.id、q.name、键、值

分组

...根据您的解释,我不清楚这是否会产生合理数量的输出行。但假设确实如此,请编写一些代码将它们按摩成您想要的形状。

您可以将大部分成本捆绑在 CTE 中的单个主查询中,并多次重复使用结果。
这 returns 一个 单行三列 以每个 type ():

命名
WITH cte AS (
   SELECT cai.id, cai.activity_id, cas.key, cas.value
   FROM   common_activityinstance cai
   JOIN   common_activityinstance_settings s ON s.activityinstance_id = cai.id
   JOIN   common_activitysetting cas ON cas.id = s.id
   WHERE  cai.end_time::date = '2015-09-12'   -- problem?
   AND    cai.activity_type = 'QZ'
   AND   (cas.key = 'disable_student_nav' AND cas.value IN ('True', 'False') OR
          cas.key = 'pacing' AND cas.value IN ('student', 'teacher'))
   )
SELECT *
FROM  (
   SELECT count(*) AS spf
   FROM  (
      SELECT c.id
      FROM   cte c
      JOIN   quizzes_quiz q ON q.id = c.activity_id
      WHERE  q.name <> 'Exit Ticket Quiz'
      AND   (c.key, c.value) IN (('disable_student_nav', 'True')
                               , ('pacing', 'student'))
      GROUP  BY 1
      HAVING count(*) = 2
      ) sub
   ) spf
,  (
   SELECT count(key = 'disable_student_nav' AND value = 'False' OR NULL) AS spn
        , count(key = 'pacing' AND value = 'teacher' OR NULL) AS tp
   FROM   cte
   ) spn_tp;

应该适用于 Postgres 9.3。在 Postgres 9.4 中,您可以使用新的聚合 FILTER 子句:

  count(*) FILTER (WHERE key = 'disable_student_nav' AND value = 'False') AS spn
, count(*) FILTER (WHERE key = 'pacing' AND value = 'teacher') AS tp

两种语法变体的详细信息:

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标记为 problem? 的条件可能是很大的性能问题,具体取决于 cai.end_time 的数据类型。首先,它不是 sargable。而如果是timestamptz类型,表达式很难索引,因为结果取决于session当前的时区设置——在不同的时区执行也会导致不同的结果。

比较:

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您只需命名应该定义您的日期的时区。以我在维也纳的时区为例:

WHERE  cai.end_time >= '2015-09-12 0:0'::timestamp AT TIME ZONE 'Europe/Vienna' 
AND    cai.end_time <  '2015-09-13 0:0'::timestamp AT TIME ZONE 'Europe/Vienna'

您也可以提供简单的 timestamptz 值。你甚至可以:

WHERE  cai.end_time >= '2015-09-12'::date
AND    cai.end_time <  '2015-09-12'::date + 1

但第一个变体不依赖于当前时区设置。
上面链接有详细解释。

现在查询可以使用您的索引,如果您的 table.

中有许多不同的日子,查询应该会快得多

这只是一个完全不同方法的草图:为您需要的所有条件构造一个布尔值 "hypercube" 在你的 "crosstabulation" 中。选择或聚合子集的逻辑可以稍后完成(例如抑制exit_tickets,业务逻辑我不清楚)


SELECT DISTINCT not_exit, disabled, pacing
    , COUNT(*) AS the_count
    FROM (SELECT DISTINCT cai.id
          , EXISTS (SELECT *
            FROM quizzes_quiz q 
            WHERE q.id = cai.activity_id AND q.name != 'Exit Ticket Quiz'
            ) AS not_exit
          , EXISTS ( SELECT *
            FROM common_activityinstance_settings cais  
            JOIN common_activitysetting cas ON cas.id = cais.id
            WHERE cai.id = cais.activityinstance_id
            AND cas.key = 'disable_student_nav' AND cas.value = 'True'
            ) AS disabled
          , EXISTS ( SELECT *
            FROM common_activityinstance_settings cais 
            JOIN common_activitysetting cas ON cas.id = cais.id
            WHERE cai.id = cais.activityinstance_id
            AND cas.key = 'pacing' AND cas.value = 'student')
            ) AS pacing
          FROM common_activityinstance cai
          WHERE cai.end_time::date = '2015-09-12' AND cai.activity_type = 'QZ'
    ) my_cube
GROUP BY 1,2,3
ORDER BY 1,2,3
  ;

最后说明:此方法基于我的假设,即基础数据模型实际上是一个 EAV 模型,并且每个学生最多可以出现一次属性。