Re: [GENERAL] Queries never returning...

2005-12-29 Thread John McCawley
It looks like my primary slowdown on that query was the timestamp trigger. However, even after removing that trigger, and ensuring that all of my referencing tables had their foreign keys indexed, a simple update of one column on 244451 records took 14 minutes. Given the specs I mentioned in

Re: [GENERAL] Queries never returning...

2005-12-28 Thread Tom Lane
John McCawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In looking at the "\d tbl_claim" output, there is something odd I > notice. I have many foreign keys (the claim_id in tbl_claim is > referenced by 12 or so other tables, and tbl_claim references about 6 or > so tables by their _id) It seems a good be

Re: [GENERAL] Queries never returning...

2005-12-28 Thread John McCawley
Tom Lane wrote: The differential would have to be index updates or triggers fired by the UPDATE. I'd bet on the latter, but since you've told us zip about your schema or what PG version this is, it's impossible to speculate further... This is my development machine. I'm running PostgreSQ

Re: [GENERAL] Queries never returning...

2005-12-28 Thread Ian Harding
On 12/28/05, John McCawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am currently having a problem with a query never finishing (or at > least not in a reasonable amount of time.) I have had similar problems > to this in Postgres over the past several years, and I have always found > workarounds. This time

Re: [GENERAL] Queries never returning...

2005-12-28 Thread Tom Lane
John McCawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am currently having a problem with a query never finishing (or at > least not in a reasonable amount of time.) I have had similar problems > to this in Postgres over the past several years, and I have always found > workarounds. This time I'd like

[GENERAL] Queries never returning...

2005-12-28 Thread John McCawley
I am currently having a problem with a query never finishing (or at least not in a reasonable amount of time.) I have had similar problems to this in Postgres over the past several years, and I have always found workarounds. This time I'd like to actually understand what is happening. I have