SubQuery Performance

From: mike <mail4mz(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: SubQuery Performance
Date: 2010-08-26 01:18:43
Message-ID: 6107e604-2694-4a32-b625-d9870a4c0df3@y11g2000yqm.googlegroups.com
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Hi All,

I have a poor performance SQL as following. The table has about 200M
records, each employee have average 100 records. The query lasts about
3 hours. All I want is to update the flag for highest version of each
client's record. Any suggestion is welcome!

Thanks,

Mike

====SQL===========
update empTbl A
set flag=1
where
rec_ver =
( select max(rec_ver)
from empTbl
where empNo = A.empNo)

===Table empTbl=====

empTbl
{
int empNo;
int flag;
char[256] empDesc;
int rec_ver;
}

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