RE: Fragment elimination on datetime field

Ben, My understanding is that month() SQL function is *just* a function, like any other function, that can be created in SPL or C. Optimizer doesn't know the internals of this function, specifically, doesn't know, how to convert it's results into a date range. This is why optimizer is unable to generate proper fragment elimination query plan. I think, that it is much more efficient to specify date range (either '<' and ">=", or 'between', both work similarly) for this type of table fragmentation. -Alexey -----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Ben Thompson Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 8:05 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Fragment elimination on datetime field Hi, IDS 10.00.xc5 Multiple platforms I am looking for a way of creating an index on a large table so that fragment elimination will be achieved regularly. The index is simply on a datetime field. I want the index to be maintenance free so I don't want to use specific date ranges and risk that a date can be inserted that doesn't match any of the fragments. I have tried using the MONTH function as in fragment by expression (MONTH (dtfield ) = 1 ) in dbs1 , (MONTH (dtfield ) = 2 ) in dbs2 , (MONTH (dtfield ) = 3 ) in dbs3 , (MONTH (dtfield ) = 4 ) in dbs4 .... (This is neat in that it splits things up into 12 which is about the maximum number of threads I want to use for PDQ. Of course PDQ is separate to fragment elimination.) However this doesn't achieve fragment elimination unless you specifically use the MONTH function in your SQL statement and even then it doesn't always work if you filter on this column further. Most of the SQL we run uses date ranges over a week or month period. I suppose I am looking for a neat way of doing it like there is with the MOD function for id type columns. Can anyone suggest anything? Ben. _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list