Re: Comparitive UPDATE speed - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Comparitive UPDATE speed
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Msg-id 26159.1033760728@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Comparitive UPDATE speed  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> When the UPDATE query takes a long time, I generally can watch the log hover
> in the land of "Reaping dead child processes" for 30-90 seconds per
> iteration.

Uh ... would you translate that observation into English please?  Or
better, provide the log output you're looking at?

            regards, tom lane

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