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From: Sumeet <asumeet@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: tesearch2 question
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:46:07 -0500
Message-ID: <7539aebb0703070746y5d3b779dlf9d37eea3caf5de@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi All,

I'm trying to udpate a table containing  13149741 records. And its taking
forever to complete this process.

The update query i'm trying to run is for full text indexing similiar to

UPDATE tblMessages SET idxFTI=to_tsvector(strMessage);


Below are some of the stats which might be helpful for analyzing this

$top

   PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME    CPU COMMAND
  3091 postgres   1  43    0   46M   38M cpu/1  200:06  3.20% postgres
  5052 postgres   1  60    0  149M  134M sleep    0:17  3.12% postgres

<<<here are the top 2 processes, out of which the first process i have been
running almost for a day and a half and it is still running,

This table which i'm trying to  update has 10 indexes

=========================================================
 "a_article_pk" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id)
    "a_article_uk_pmid" UNIQUE, btree (pmid)
    "a_article_idx_abstract" btree ("substring"(abstract::text, 0, 255))
    "a_article_idx_date_cr_year" btree (date_cr_year)
    "a_article_idx_ml_journal_info_medline_ta" btree (ml_journal_info_a_ta)
    "a_article_idx_owner" btree ("owner")
    "a_article_idx_pmid" btree (pmid)
    "a_article_idx_status" btree (status)
    "a_article_idx_title" btree (article_title)
    "a_master_t_idx_year_published" btree (published_year)
========================================================
But no indexes on the field i'm trying to update. The field i'm trying to
add is a new field.
Can anyone help me out to figure out why is it taking so much time to update
the table.

Also as u see in the above indexes, I have some indexes on some varchar
column which i feel are totally useless unless u so a exact string match.
But does that help in any sense for improving the speed of retreiving the
string just normally without any search on it?

Thanks,
Sumeet.

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