Add a top_authors materialized view

src/cron.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
-import { updateTrendingLinks } from '@/trends.ts';
-import { updateTrendingHashtags } from '@/trends.ts';
-import { updateTrendingEvents, updateTrendingPubkeys, updateTrendingZappedEvents } from '@/trends.ts';
+import { sql } from 'kysely';
+
+import { Storages } from '@/storages.ts';
+import {
+  updateTrendingEvents,
+  updateTrendingHashtags,
+  updateTrendingLinks,
+  updateTrendingPubkeys,
+  updateTrendingZappedEvents,
+} from '@/trends.ts';
 
 /** Start cron jobs for the application. */
 export function cron() {
@@ -9,4 +16,9 @@ export function cron() {
   Deno.cron('update trending events', '15 * * * *', updateTrendingEvents);
   Deno.cron('update trending hashtags', '30 * * * *', updateTrendingHashtags);
   Deno.cron('update trending links', '45 * * * *', updateTrendingLinks);
+
+  Deno.cron('refresh top authors', '20 * * * *', async () => {
+    const kysely = await Storages.kysely();
+    await sql`refresh materialized view top_authors`.execute(kysely);
+  });
 }

src/db/DittoTables.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ export interface DittoTables extends NPostgresSchema {
   event_stats: EventStatsRow;
   event_zaps: EventZapRow;
   push_subscriptions: PushSubscriptionRow;
+  /** This is a materialized view of `author_stats` pre-sorted by followers_count. */
+  top_authors: Pick<AuthorStatsRow, 'pubkey' | 'followers_count' | 'search'>;
 }
 
 interface AuthorStatsRow {

src/db/migrations/049_author_stats_sorted.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import { Kysely } from 'kysely';
+
+export async function up(db: Kysely<any>): Promise<void> {
+  await db.schema
+    .createView('top_authors')
+    .materialized()
+    .as(db.selectFrom('author_stats').select(['pubkey', 'followers_count', 'search']).orderBy('followers_count desc'))
+    .execute();
+}
+
+export async function down(db: Kysely<unknown>): Promise<void> {
+  await db.schema.dropView('top_authors').execute();
+}

src/utils/search.ts

@@ -12,10 +12,9 @@ export async function getPubkeysBySearch(
   const pubkeys = new Set<string>();
 
   const query = kysely
-    .selectFrom('author_stats')
+    .selectFrom('top_authors')
     .select('pubkey')
     .where('search', sql`%>`, q)
-    .orderBy('followers_count desc')
     .limit(limit)
     .offset(offset);