Re: followup to SELECT/INSERT problem

On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 12:00:31PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jim Mercer <jim(at)reptiles(dot)org> writes:
> > it appears that each call to UPDATE seems to be taking a long, long time to
> > complete.
>
> Poor choice of plan, maybe? What does EXPLAIN say about how a typical
> example of the UPDATE will be executed?

silly me, i should have know to do more investigation before going to the list.

as it turns out, the index on the key was not being used.

a "vacuum verbose analyze" caused things to run much, much faster.
(hence the UPDATE ... WHERE key = ... was taking extra long)

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