Re: [HACKERS] strange behavior of UPDATE

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Edmund Mergl <E(dot)Mergl(at)bawue(dot)de>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers Mailinglist <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] strange behavior of UPDATE
Date: 1999-05-26 13:42:30
Message-ID: 12739.927726150@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Edmund Mergl <E(dot)Mergl(at)bawue(dot)de> writes:
>> Could you try the same queries with no indexes in place, and see what
>> the time scaling is like then? That would confirm or deny the theory
>> that it's an index-update problem.

> here they are, and yes, I double-checked them twice !

> database #rows inserts create make_sqs make_nqs
> index selects updates
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> pgsql 10.000 00:24 - 00:13 00:05
> pgsql 100.000 04:01 - 00:83 00:32
> pgsql 1.000.000 39:24 - 26:36 26:52

Oh dear ... so much for my theory that index updates are to blame for
the scaling problem. Back to the drawing board ...

regards, tom lane

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