Re: Suggestions on an update query

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:04:47 +0100
Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> > O.k. first you might be grinding through your 20 checkpoint segments
> > but in reality what I think is happening is you are doing foreign
> > key checks against all of it and slowing things down.
>
> If you're going to berate someone about top-posting perhaps you
> should attach your own commentary to relevant bits of context :P

It was hardly berating Greg, I even said please.

> I
> suspect you've guessed it right though. In fact I suspect what's
> happening is he doesn't have an index on the referencing column so
> the foreign key checks are doing sequential scans of.
>

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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