Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB9264FC01 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:39:34 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 89143-01 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:39:30 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from skynet.simkin.ca (skynet.simkin.ca [72.51.27.117]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F2264FC36 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:39:30 -0300 (ADT) Received: from charon.medialogik.com (unknown [10.10.2.229]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by skynet.simkin.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC16C4A55 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:39:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan Hodgson Organization: Simkin Network Consulting To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Slow updates, poor IO Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:39:27 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <48DBE587.3050406@mib-infotech.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <48DBE587.3050406@mib-infotech.co.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809251239.27439@hal.medialogik.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200809/227 X-Sequence-Number: 31540 On Thursday 25 September 2008, John Huttley wrote: > > Comments anyone? Don't do full table updates? This is not exactly a news flash. -- Alan