Re: Time consuming process ...3 million records please help - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Srinivas Iyyer
Subject Re: Time consuming process ...3 million records please help
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Msg-id 20060328021716.44814.qmail@web38105.mail.mud.yahoo.com
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In response to Re: Time consuming process ...3 million records please help  (Sean Davis <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov>)
Responses Re: Time consuming process ...3 million records please help  (Sean Davis <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov>)
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Hi Sean,
thanks for your reply. in my temp table,
temp_refseq_id column cannot be indexed due to
duplicate values. will that effect drastically.
I havent tested it yet. on top of that i killed 8 hrs
process running previously on tab_update() function.
:-)

thanks
sri


> Hi, Sri.
>
> I would do this differently.  You don't need the
> function I don't
> think.  I would do something like this (untested):
>
> insert into spontanno (seq_id, spontanno_imageid,
> spontanno_genbankacc)
> select seqdump.seq_id, referrer_keys.temp_imageid,
>     referrer_keys.temp.genbankacc from
> referrer_keys, seqdump
>     where
> referrer_keys.temp_refseq_id=seqdump.seq_acc;
>
> Make sure there is an index on seq_acc and
> temp_refseq_id.  This should
> be done in seconds to minutes, not hours.
>
> Sean

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