Re: Running update in chunks?

From: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tim Uckun <timuckun(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)mail(dot)com>, Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Running update in chunks?
Date: 2013-01-22 07:02:57
Message-ID: CAMkU=1zEfWqz+Wj=FJPjXVuoiupLmZ7Rsd9PHwr1GiGQX1YMFg@mail.gmail.com
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On Monday, January 21, 2013, Tim Uckun wrote:

> > First off, what does it say for rows affected? (Hint, if you really
> > are using a default configuration and it doesn't say 0 rows
> > affected, please show us the actual query used.)
>
> update imports set make_id = null
>
> Query returned successfully: 98834 rows affected, 49673 ms execution time.
>
>
> vacuum analyze imports
>
> Query returned successfully with no result in 4138 ms.
>
> VACUUM FULL imports;
>

What if you do:
alter table cars.imports set (fillfactor=50);
Before the vacuum full, and then try the update again?

Cheers,

Jeff

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