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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: yudhi s <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: update faster way
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:28:45 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEzWdqd-22B-bpVdT3yzegiOig9zvJnfJvi=GOMFfHT-Jg8CgQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 2024-Sep-14, yudhi s wrote:

> Hello,
> We have to update a column value(from numbers like '123' to codes like
> 'abc' by looking into a reference table data) in a partitioned table with
> billions of rows in it, with each partition having 100's millions rows.

Another option is to not update anything, and instead create a view on
top of the partitioned table (joined to the reference table) that
returns the reference value instead of the original number value from
the column; when the application wants to receive those reference
values, it queries the view instead of the partitioned table directly.

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