Re: updating a row in a table with only one row - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From A. Kretschmer
Subject Re: updating a row in a table with only one row
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Msg-id 20091002091435.GG22496@a-kretschmer.de
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In response to updating a row in a table with only one row  (Michal Vitecek <fuf@mageo.cz>)
List pgsql-performance
In response to Michal Vitecek :
>  There are ~100 tables in the database and one of them (tableOne) always
>  contains only a single row. There's one index on it. However performing

In this case, only one row, you don't need an index. Really.

>  update on the single row (which occurs every 60 secs) takes a
>  considerably long time -- around 200ms. The system is not loaded in any
>  way.
>
>  UPDATE tableOne SET value1 = newValue1, value2 = newValue2, value5 = newValue5;
>
>  And this is what EXPLAIN says on the above SQL query:
>
>  DB=> EXPLAIN UPDATE tableOne SET value1 = newValue1, value2 = newValue2, value5 = newValue5;
>  LOG:  duration: 235.948 ms  statement: EXPLAIN UPDATE tableOne SET value1 = newValue1, value2 = newValue2, value5 =
newValue5;
>                         QUERY PLAN
>  --------------------------------------------------------
>   Seq Scan on jackpot  (cost=0.00..1.01 rows=1 width=14)
>  (1 row)

tableOne or jackpot?


>
>  What takes PostgreSQL so long? I guess I could add a fake 'id' column,
>  create an index on it to identify the single row, but still -- the time
>  seems quite ridiculous to me.

Maybe a lot of dead tuples, can you show us the output generated from
explain analyse?

I would suggest you to do a 'vacuum full' on this table.


Andreas
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