Re: Why Does UPDATE Take So Long? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Why Does UPDATE Take So Long?
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Msg-id 20080930210531.GF4821@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Why Does UPDATE Take So Long?  (Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>)
Responses Re: Why Does UPDATE Take So Long?  (Bill Thoen <bthoen@gisnet.com>)
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Bill Moran wrote:

> What I suspect is that the typical tuning advice applies here.  I don't
> see any information about your configuration or your hardware setup.
> * What are shared_buffers set at?
> * What do the checkpoint configs look like?
> * In general, what does your postgresql.conf look like, how much tuning
>   have you done?
> * What is your hardware setup?  You're not running RAID 5 are you?

Also, how many indexes does this table have?

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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