Re: What's faster?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net>
Cc: "Keith Bottner" <kbottner(at)comcast(dot)net>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What's faster?
Date: 2003-12-27 18:30:38
Message-ID: 12771.1072549838@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net> writes:
> We went through this recently. One thing we found that may apply to you is
> how many fields in the client record have a foreign key constraint. We find
> that tables with lots of FKeys are a lot more intensive on updates.

BTW, this should have gotten better in 7.3.4 and later --- there is
logic to skip checking an FKey reference if the referencing columns
didn't change during the update.

regards, tom lane

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