Re: Update command too slow - Mailing list pgsql-general

Hi,

The where clause is used in update statements and the
column present in the where clause is indexed...

but still updates are slow.

Thanks,
Venkatesh

--- guegue <guegue@gmail.com> wrote:

> you mention you use one update statement by record,
> this may be to
> basic but anyway, it just happened to me...
>
> do you use the WHERE clause in your UPDATE
> statement, and if so is the
> column you use to filter indexed?
>
> javier
>
>
> On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 03:14:52 -0800 (PST), Venkatesh
> Babu
> <venkatbabukr@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There aren't any foreign keys and we are currently
> > using Postgres version 7.4...
> >
> > --- Venkatesh Babu <venkatbabukr@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > There aren't any triggers but there are 75262
> update
> > > statements. The problem is that we have a
> datatype
> > > called as "Collection" and we are fetching the
> data
> > > rows into it, modifying the data and call
> > > Collection.save(). This save method generates
> one
> > > update satement per record present in it.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Venkatesh
> > >
> > > --- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Venkatesh Babu <venkatbabukr@yahoo.com>
> writes:
> > > > > We have a table cm_quotastates which has
> exactly
> > > > > 4624564 rows and 25 columns and 9 indexes...
> Out
> > > > of
> > > > > these, our code retrieves 75262 rows and
> > > modifies
> > > > just
> > > > > one column in each row... but updating these
> to
> > > > > database is taking some significant time
> (around
> > > > 20
> > > > > minutes)... Tried the following with the
> update
> > > >
> > > > Any triggers or foreign keys on that table?
> Also,
> > > > what PG version is
> > > > this?  Are you doing this in a single UPDATE
> > > > command, or 75262 separate
> > > > commands?
> > > >
> > > >                     regards, tom lane
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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