Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4B4632B74 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 13:22:02 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 51901-06 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 17:21:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from vs137086.vserver.de (static-ip-62-75-137-86.inaddr.intergenia.de [62.75.137.86]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C3963272D for ; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 13:21:50 -0400 (AST) Received: (qmail 16076 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2010 18:21:49 +0100 Received: from p54b39c81.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (HELO a-kretschmer.de) (84.179.156.129) by static-ip-62-75-137-86.inaddr.intergenia.de with (AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 8 Jan 2010 18:21:49 +0100 Received: from kretschmer by a-kretschmer.de with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NTIWx-0008Oe-Sv for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:21:47 +0100 Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 18:21:47 +0100 From: Andreas Kretschmer To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Massive table (500M rows) update nightmare Message-ID: <20100108172147.GA32049@tux> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-OS: Debian/GNU Linux - weil ich es mir Wert bin! X-GPG-Fingerprint: EE16 3C01 7B9C 10F7 2C8B 3B86 4DB3 D9EE 7F45 84DA X-Message-Flag: "Windows" is not the answer. "Windows" is the question and the answer is "no"! X-Lugdd: Gerd Kube X-Info: My name is root. Just root. And I am licensed to kill -9 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.189 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_50=0.001, FH_DATE_PAST_20XX=3.188 X-Spam-Level: *** X-Archive-Number: 201001/146 X-Sequence-Number: 37026 Carlo Stonebanks wrote: > Inerestingly, the total index size is 148GB, twice that of the table, > which may be an indication of where the performance bottleneck is. Maybe a sign for massive index-bloat? Andreas -- Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. (Linus Torvalds) "If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly." (unknown) Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe. N 51.05082°, E 13.56889°