Hi,
I am updating a big table (90M records) with data from another rather large
table (4M entries). Here is my update query:
update links set target_size =
( select size from articles where articles.article_id = links.article_to)
I have built all the indexes one might need, increased shared mem buffers to
400MB, I looked at the query plan and it looks reasonable.
But its taking an eternity to run: I've been running the query for 3 hours now
on my new Mac laptop, and looking at the activity monitor I see that postrges
is spending all of this time in disk IO (average CPU load of postgres process
is about 4-5%).
However, just looking at the query, postgres could cache the articles table
and do a single pass over the links table...
Please let me know if there is a good solution to this.
Thanks!
Pavel Velikhov
Institute of Systems Programming
Russian Academy of Sciences
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