On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 09:41:39AM +0400, Xavier Bugaud wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running PostgreSQL 7.2.1 with a redhat 7.2 box (PIII 800 / 256MB RAM /
> RAID1 IDE : promise TX2000).
> I'm new to Postgres, so perhaps I missed something...
>
> Here is the point :
> Using JDBC, I update one column for all the 1600 rows of a table (10
> columns) : I'm running 1600 times a query like this :
> for (i=0 ; i<1600 ; i++)
> rs2.executeUpdate("UPDATE my_table SET my_date=now() WHERE id="+i);
1. Are you using transactions?
2. Do you have an index on id?
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> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> arithmetic and those that can't.
