Re: atrocious update performance

From: "Rosser Schwarz" <rschwarz(at)totalcardinc(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: atrocious update performance
Date: 2004-03-15 23:20:32
Message-ID: 001a01c40ae4$1cdd4160$2500fa0a@CardServices.TCI.com
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> You can create a new table using 'create table as' to produce your
> target results. This is real fast ...
> I often see 2 orders of magnitude improvement doing this, and no
> need to vacuum.

Indeed:

"Query returned successfully with no result in 582761 ms."

Though I must say, ten minutes is nominally more than two orders of
mangitude performance improvement, versus several days.

Many thanks, Aaron.

/rls

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Rosser Schwarz
Total Card, Inc.

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