Re: slow cursor - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: slow cursor
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Msg-id 20060421023540.GS49405@pervasive.com
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In response to slow cursor  ("Sriram Dandapani" <sdandapani@counterpane.com>)
List pgsql-admin
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 07:07:54AM -0700, Sriram Dandapani wrote:
> I have a cursor that fetches 150K rows and updates or inserts a table
> with 150K rows.
>
> It takes several minutes for the process to complete (about 15 minutes).
> The select by itself (without cursor) gets all rows in 15 seconds.
>
> Is there a way to optimize the cursor to fetch all records and speed up
> the process. I still need to do the record by record processing

Not likely. Are you at least doing all this inside a transaction?
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