Re: Need suggestion on how best to update 3 million rows - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Nis Jørgensen
Subject Re: Need suggestion on how best to update 3 million rows
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In response to Re: Need suggestion on how best to update 3 million rows  (hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com>)
Responses Re: Need suggestion on how best to update 3 million rows  (hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com>)
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hubert depesz lubaczewski skrev:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:08:02AM +0200, Alban Hertroys wrote:
>> create index tmp_idx on table(number) where number != trim(number);
>> analyze table;
>> update table set number = trim(number) where number != trim(number);
>
> dont use !=. use <>. != does something different, and in fact it is
> not a real operator - it's just 2 operators bundled together.

Rubbish. From the documentation:

"The != operator is converted to <> in the parser stage. It is not
possible to implement != and <> operators that do different things."

Nis

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