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From: Pavel Velikhov <pvelikhov@yahoo.com>
To: Jonah H. Harris <jonah.harris@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: need help with a query
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:11:36 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <499575.37238.qm@web56407.mail.re3.yahoo.com> (raw)

Thanks for you help!

Got a very different query plan this time, with a hash join between links and articles. At least now postgres is using both shared memory buffers and working mem, but its still completely IO bound, only getting in 5-6% CPU once in a while. I guess I can't squeeze more out of the laptop, but I also have a machine with 16GB RAM that I'll try this on next. Should I allocate tons of memory into shared buffers or into the working memory?

Thanks in advance!

----- Original Message ----
From: Jonah H. Harris <jonah.harris@gmail.com>
To: Pavel Velikhov <pvelikhov@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 7:52:58 PM
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] need help with a query

On 10/19/07, Pavel Velikhov <pvelikhov@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>   I am updating a big table (90M records) with data from another
 rather
> large table (4M entries). Here is my update query:
>
>     update links set target_size =
>     ( select size from articles where articles.article_id =
> links.article_to)

try:

UPDATE links
   SET target_size = size
  FROM articles
 WHERE articles.article_id = links.article_to;

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