On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Joey Quinn <bjquinniii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> update ipv4_table set country='xx' where ipv4 between 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'
> and 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx';
>
> There are 127k lines like that (each with a different range and the
> appropriate country code). Each is terminated with a semi-colon. Does that
> make them individual transactions in postgres or not? (postgres newbie
> here). Is there something else I need to do for them to be treated like
> separate transactions?
>
If you did not wrap the whole thing with begin/commit then each is its own
transaction. I certainly hope you have an appopriate index on that ipv4
column and it is appropriately typed.