"Mindaugas Riauba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Well, try it without the trigger. If performance improves markedly, it
>> might be worth rewriting in C.
> Nope. Execution time is practically the same without trigger.
>> If not, you're probably saturating the disk I/O -
> Bottleneck in this case is CPU. postmaster process uses almost 100% of
> CPU.
That seems very odd. Updates should be I/O intensive, not CPU
intensive. I wouldn't have been surprised to hear of a plpgsql trigger
consuming lots of CPU, but without it, I'm not sure where the time is
going. Can you show us an EXPLAIN ANALYZE result for a typical update
command?
regards, tom lane
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