Update taking forever

From: "Graham Vickrage" <graham(at)digitalplanit(dot)com>
To: "Postgres SQL" <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Update taking forever
Date: 2001-03-29 18:42:15
Message-ID: NDBBJABDILOPAOOMFJHOAEOECIAA.graham@digitalplanit.com
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I am trying to do an update on column in a table with 1.5 millions rows.

The SQL is as follows, I am also putting it in a transaction in case things
go wrong.

begin;
update statistics set parameters = NULL where parameters ='';

An explain produces the following: -
Seq Scan on statistics (cost=0.00..56174.49 rows=14976 width=88)

Would anyone be able to tell me why it is seemingly infinite, i'm running
linux, postgres v7.0

Cheers

Graham

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