Tom,
Thank you! I will have the client try that. What
about the event_tbl_evt_id_key index question. Could
that also be causing me difficulties? Should I
periodically reindex it?
thanks,
Bill
--- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Bill Chandler <billybobc1210@yahoo.com> writes:
> > Update processes run continually throughout the
> day in
> > which rows are inserted but none deleted.
>
> What about row updates?
>
> > Even seemingly simple commands are taking forever.
>
> > For example:
> > select evt_id from event_tbl where evt_id=1;
> > takes over a minute to complete.
>
> Since evt_id is a bigint, you need to write that as
>
> select evt_id from event_tbl where evt_id=1::bigint;
>
> or various other locutions that have the same
> effect. What you have is
> a bigint-vs-int comparison, which is not indexable
> in releases before 8.0.
>
> The same problem is occurring in your other example.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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