From: | "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "Campbell, Lance" <lance(at)uiuc(dot)edu> |
Cc: | "Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Suggestions on an update query |
Date: | 2007-10-30 05:19:42 |
Message-ID: | dcc563d10710292219h414a607ft9e719b33e1981b0d@mail.gmail.com |
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On 10/29/07, Campbell, Lance <lance(at)uiuc(dot)edu> wrote:
> Thanks for all of your help. The problem was that the result_entry table
> had some constraints that pointed to a third table. When I removed
> those constraints the performance was amazing. The update took less
> than seven minutes to execute. I did not even consider the fact that
> constraints to another table would impact the performance.
Usually you can put an index on the refrerenced key in the foreign
table to speed things up.
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