Re: union all taking years - PG 9.6

On 05/15/2017 04:21 PM, Patrick B wrote:
> Hi guys.
>
> I have two tables, where 'tableA' is the old and 'tableC' is the new
> one. I say "new/old" because we are migrating the data from tableA to
> tableC soon.
>
> I created a view selecting from both tables, with a UNION ALL between
> them. When selecting from that view, it's really slow. I can't even run
> explain analyze (it's been 1h and query did not finished yet).
>
> However, when running both selects with explain analyze, query is fast.
>
>
> What should I do in this case? Why is that taking so long? I assume it's
> because the UNION will look for duplicates?

Without actual information, the only thing that can be said is that it
is slow.

Information needed:

Postgres version

Table schema for tableA and tableC

The view query

The output of the explain for the view query.

>
> Thanks
> Patrick.

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