From: Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Gregory Williamson <Gregory.Williamson@digitalglobe.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Cc: Daniel Fekete <danieleff@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Slow table update
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:43:42 +0100
Message-ID: <49589BCE.5080201@shopzeus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7032.1229952622@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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<7032.1229952622@sss.pgh.pa.us>
>> My other idea was that there are so many indexes on this table, maybe
>> the update is slow because of the indexes?
>>
>
> Updating indexes is certainly very far from being free. How many is
> "many"?
>
Number of indexes = 15.
3 indexex are on "text" type column, 500MB in size each.
Other are on int8 and timestamp columns, cca. 200MB each.
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