Thanks Andreas. That was a quick response.
So way 1 must be quicker.
>am 10.03.2006, um 10:46:39 -0500 mailte Emi Lu folgendes:
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>
>>Hello,
>>
>>postgresql 8.0.1, in a plpgsql function
>>
>>To update columns' values in a table (without OID), if I ran:
>>1. "update table1 set col1 = ..., col2 = ... ... col100 ="
>>
>>or
>>2.
>>"update table1 set col1 = "
>>...
>>"update table1 set col100 = "
>>
>>way 1 only has one disk I/O, right? While way 2 is more time consuming
>>since there is disk I/O when a update is ran.
>>
>>
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>Because of MVCC every UPDATE is practical a DELETE + INSERT.
>Way1: you have only one DELETE+INSERT, Way2 one hundred, and you have
>100 dead rows until the next VACUUM.
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>
>HTH, Andreas
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