On 10/19/07, Pavel Velikhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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)

try:

UPDATE links
   SET target_size = size
  FROM articles
 WHERE articles.article_id = links.article_to;

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