Update taking forever

From: "Oliver Weichhold" <oliver(at)weichhold(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Update taking forever
Date: 2008-08-15 09:05:48
Message-ID: a13da490808150205n4f8e173byb9e29fab657cfc6f@mail.gmail.com
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The below statement is now running for 18 hours on a table with ~8 Million
Rows, no triggers no fancy stuff. The database is otherwise performing very
well and the server is a development server that's currently idle except for
the update statement. Any suggestions why it takes so long to update a
couple million rows?

update characters set last_update = null

Note: 'last_update' is a timestamp column but the column does not seem to
influence the time it takes to complete the update.

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Oliver

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