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Filtering impacts

You will revisit filtering while examining the African countries with athletes competing in the Summer Olympics. You will look at the average age by gender for the Rio de Janeiro and Beijing games.

Along the way, you will compare the query plans using numeric filters, text filters, and indexed filters.

This exercise is part of the course

Improving Query Performance in PostgreSQL

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Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

SELECT city, sex, COUNT(DISTINCT athlete_id), ___(___) AS avg_age
FROM athletes_summ
WHERE city IN ('Rio de Janeiro','Beijing')
GROUP BY city, sex;
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