Re: 10.2: high cpu usage on update statement

From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 10.2: high cpu usage on update statement
Date: 2019-04-06 05:51:32
Message-ID: 3b877cb8-17ee-e2c8-9c4a-9ed46987484c@gmail.com
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On 4/5/19 5:45 PM, Kevin Wilkinson wrote:
> on 10.2, we're seeing very high cpu usage when doing an update statement
> on a relatively small table (1GB). one of the updated columns is text,
> about 1k bytes. there are four threads doing similar updates concurrently
> to the same table (but different rows). each thread does an update about
> every two seconds, i.e., the tables gets updated every 1/2 second. the
> stack trace below shows the process *stuck in reading the update results*.
> this seems very odd. has anyone seen something similar?  this is a modest
> server of 8 cores, all of which are 90% busy.

Does the table have supporting indexes?

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