From: Gabriel Biberian <admin@beemotechnologie.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: UPDATE on NOT JOIN
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:33:49 +0100
Message-ID: <4F3BFA8D.1050200@beemotechnologie.com> (raw)
Hello,
I'm working on a system that detects changes in someone's filesystem.
We first scan the entire filesystem which is dumped into the table
'filesystem' containing the full_path of every file and it's
corresponding md5 hash.
We then do subsequent scans of the filesystem which are dumped into a
temporary table and we would like to find out which files are not
present anymore. To do so, we update the field 'dead' in the
'filesystem' table for every row that does not exist in the 'temporary'
table.
\d filesystem;
Table « public.filesystem »
Colonne | Type | Modificateurs
------------+------------------------+----------------------
hash | character(32) |
full_name | text |
dead | integer | default 0
Index :
« filesystem_unique » UNIQUE, btree (hash)
\d temporary;
Table « public.filesystem »
Colonne | Type | Modificateurs
------------+------------------------+----------------------
hash | character(32) |
full_name | text |
Index :
« temporary_unique » UNIQUE, btree (hash)
Currently, i use the following query to update the filesystem table with
the missing files :
UPDATE filesystem SET dead=some_value WHERE dead=0 AND (SELECT 1 FROM
temporary AS t WHERE t.hash=filesystem.hash LIMIT 1) IS NULL
This works correctly for regular filesystems. But when the 'filesystem'
table contains more than a few million rows, the update query can take days.
Here's an explain of the query :
=# UPDATE filesystem SET dead=some_value WHERE dead=0 AND (SELECT 1 FROM
temporary AS t WHERE t.hash=filesystem.hash LIMIT 1) IS NULL
QUERY PLAN
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Seq Scan on filesystem (cost=0.00..97536479.02 rows=25747 width=241)
Filter: ((dead = 0) AND ((subplan) IS NULL))
SubPlan
-> Limit (cost=0.00..9.53 rows=1 width=0)
-> Index Scan using temporary_hash on temporary t
(cost=0.00..9.53 rows=1 width=0)
Index Cond: (hash = $0)
(6 lignes)
Is there a better way to update a table if it doesn't join another table ?
Best Regards,
Gabriel Biberian
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