Hibernate Search Faceting: Discrete and Range Faceting by Example

In today’s tutorial we’re exploring the world of faceted searches like the one we’re used to see when we’re searching for an item on Amazon.com or other websites. We’re using Hibernate Search here that offers an API to perform discrete as well as range faceted searches on our persisted data. Maven Dependencies Needed For simplicity’s sake am I going to use an HSQL database for persistence, in addition the dependencies for hibernate-entitymanager and hibernate-search (of course) should be added to your pom.xml ...

March 26, 2012 · 5 min · 986 words · Micha Kops

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Get size of a table SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size('schemaname.tablename')); Select unique combination of fields / tuples SELECT DISTINCT ON(field1, field2) field1, field2 FROM thetable Select rows where a combination of fields is not unique SELECT columnA, columnB, count(*) AS count FROM thetable GROUP BY columnA, columnB HAVING count(*) > 1 Search for rows with array containing value Assuming, the field appointments has the type date[] SELECT * FROM mtable WHERE appointments @> ARRAY['2023-09-19'::date] ...

March 1, 2010 · 8 min · 1655 words · Micha Kops