Lee Garrett wrote:
>On 11/21/2013 04:15 PM, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
>>Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
>>>Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
>>>Valid question. I asked my production db, about 5 minutes ago, the
>>>query is still running.  I'm not certain I can leave it running to
>>>completion without disrupting service too much.

>>It locks nothing.

>I think he means a performance drop due to the long running query,
>not specifically a lock.

Quite.  When indexes get large enough, these "simple" queries
can wreak havoc on the disk access patterns.
-- 
Stephen.

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