Re: [GENERAL] update slows down in pl/pgsql function - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Jenny Zhang
Subject Re: [GENERAL] update slows down in pl/pgsql function
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Msg-id 1071619646.10925.19.camel@ibm-a.pdx.osdl.net
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] update slows down in pl/pgsql function  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>)
List pgsql-performance
Oops, I named the var name the same as the column name.  Changing it to
something else solved the problem.

Thanks,
Jenny
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 15:54, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Jenny Zhang wrote:
>
> > I have stored procedure written in pl/pgsql which takes about 13 seconds
> > to finish.  I was able to identify that the slowness is caused by one
> > update SQL:
> >
> > UPDATE shopping_cart SET sc_sub_total=sc_subtotal, sc_date=now()
> > WHERE sc_id=sc_id;
>
> Umm, is that exactly the condition you're using? Isn't that going to
> update the entire table?
>
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