Bryce Nesbitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > update event set reconciled=true where event_id in > (select event_id from event join token using (token_number) > where token_status=50 and reconciled=false LIMIT 1);
> On a 4 CPU machine, 2 CPU's peg at 100%, and the request just eats CPU > forever. What does EXPLAIN show for this and for the base query? > PostgreSQL 7.4.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 This may be your problem right here. You are urgently in need of an update in any case --- there are a lot of nasty bugs fixed since 7.4.1: http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/release.html regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
