Orignally there were but in the process of trying to figure
out what is going on I stripped everything out of the database
except the table being queried.
>
> "Medora Schauer" <mschauer@fairfield.com> writes:
> > I have a table with a 3 column key. I noticed that when I
> update a non-key field
> > in a record of the table that the update was taking longer
> than I thought it
> > should. After much experimenting I discovered that if I
> changed the data
> > types of two of the key columns to FLOAT8 that I got vastly improved
> > performance.
>
> Are there any foreign key linkages to or from this table? Maybe the
> other end of the foreign key is float8?
>
> regards, tom lane
>