Re: Any issues with my tuning...

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 14:43, David Griffiths wrote:
> I've been having performance issues with Postgres (sequential scans vs
> index scans in an update statement). I've read that optimizer will
> change it's plan based on the resources it thinks are available. In
> addition, I've read alot of conflicting info on various parameters, so
> I'd like to sort those out as well.
>
> Here's the query I've been having problems with:
>
> UPDATE user_account SET last_name='abc'
> FROM commercial_entity ce, commercial_service cs
> WHERE user_account.user_account_id = ce.user_account_id AND
> ce.commercial_entity_id=cs.commercial_entity_id;
>
> or
>
> UPDATE user_account SET last_name = 'abc'
> WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM commercial_entity ce, commercial_service
> cs
> WHERE user_account.user_account_id = ce.user_account_id AND
> ce.commercial_entity_id = cs.commercial_entity_id);
>
> Both are about the same.
>
> All columns are indexed; all column-types are the same
> (numeric(10,0)). A vacuum analyze was run just before the last attempt
> at running the above statement.

First thing is to change ce.user_account_id, ce.commercial_entity_id,
and cs.commercial_entity_id from numeric(10,0) to INTEGER. PG uses
them much more efficiently than it does NUMERIC, since it's a simple
scalar type.

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