Richard-
Thanks for the suggestions. I too had thought about the FK checks, even though the columns aren't getting updated.
I'm flabbergasted that the update is still running (~22 hours elapsed). By comparison, the database takes only 4 hours to recreate from backup! Something funny is happening here. I just interrupted the update and will find another way.
But hang on, what's this:
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
30164 compbio 25 0 6056 6056 3568 R 98.8 0.1 29:55 postgres: admin csb [local] COPY
I am the only user and I'm not doing a copy... this must be part of the update process. Does anyone out there know whether updates do a table copy instead of in-table udpating (perhaps as a special case for whole-table updates)?
Of course, I can't help but wonder whether I just killed it when it was nearly done...
Thanks,
Reece
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