On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Stephan Szabo wrote:
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> On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Nigel J. Andrews wrote:
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> > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, John Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > > That works - updates on foo take about 1.4 seconds. I dropped all the
> > > > indexes and fk's on stats and updates there take about 2.8 seconds.
> > > > These are on the cygwin machine.
> > >
> > > The 2.8 seconds is on stats after dropping the fks and indexes? But
> > > it didn't help on the linux box?
>
>...
>
> Yeah, but I thought he'd said that on the linux box, even after dropping
> indexes and fks it was taking 5-10 seconds.
You miss remembered :)
>
> I'm also a bit confused because I'm not sure he's getting 2.8 seconds to
> update all the records or just a single record.
I'm pretty sure the command originally quoted was an unconstrained update
setting a constant value, i.e. all the rows. I had to change my test because
I'd setup unique indexes so couldn't do the constant value bit.
--
Nigel Andrews
