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From preetika tyagi
Subject Slow INSERT as compared to UPDATE
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Msg-id AANLkTikLMpW4W=N4t8SVsN366jY22VDyOgzpQmFqK6bc@mail.gmail.com
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Hi All,

When I insert or update a record in a table in PostgreSQL, the time taken by insert query is much larger (300 ms) than the time taken by update query (20 ms). If I think logically, there should not be a significant difference. To insert a record, it will check/insert the entry in the index and insert the record in the table (unclustered B Tree indexing on primary key). For update, it will search the entry in the indexing and update the record. In both the cases, the number of operations/disk accesses are nearly equal. Then why such a big execution time difference?

Thanks,
Preetika

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