Re: Update quey

Thank you! That worked fine.

From: bricklen [mailto:bricklen(at)gmail(dot)com]
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 10:08 AM
To: Hall, Samuel L (Sam)
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Update quey

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Hall, Samuel L (Sam) <sam(dot)hall(at)alcatel-lucent(dot)com<mailto:sam(dot)hall(at)alcatel-lucent(dot)com>> wrote:
I have a table (pubacc_lo) from the US government with 500,00+ rows. It has latitude and longitude in three columns each for degrees, minutes and seconds. I need a Point geometry column. So I wrote this query:

with mydata AS (SELECT (pubacc_lo.lat_degrees + pubacc_lo.lat_minutes/60 + pubacc_lo.lat_seconds/3600) as lat , (pubacc_lo.long_degrees + pubacc_lo.long_minutes/60 + pubacc_lo.long_seconds/3600) as long FROM pubacc_lo)
UPDATE pubacc_lo SET lonlat_84 = ST_SetSRID(ST_makePOINT(long,lat),4326) FROM mydata;

It appears to work, but is going to take days it seems to finish. Anybody have a faster way?

Create a new table, rather than updating the existing one.
CREATE TABLE pubacc_lo_new AS
select *, (pubacc_lo.lat_degrees + pubacc_lo.lat_minutes/60 + pubacc_lo.lat_seconds/3600) as lat , (pubacc_lo.long_degrees + pubacc_lo.long_minutes/60 + pubacc_lo.long_seconds/3600) as long
from pubacc_lo;
Then either rename them, or use the new table.