Yes..all of it is in one transaction as there is a window of record ids that need to be processed in 1 transaction. Data inflow is very voluminous appx 1 million every 15 minutes and the goal is to create aggregate tables on the fly (the alternative is to use nightly aggregates). -----Original Message----- From: Jim C. Nasby [mailto:jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 7:36 PM To: Sriram Dandapani Cc: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [ADMIN] slow cursor On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 07:07:54AM -0700, Sriram Dandapani wrote: > I have a cursor that fetches 150K rows and updates or inserts a table > with 150K rows. > > It takes several minutes for the process to complete (about 15 minutes). > The select by itself (without cursor) gets all rows in 15 seconds. > > Is there a way to optimize the cursor to fetch all records and speed up > the process. I still need to do the record by record processing Not likely. Are you at least doing all this inside a transaction? -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
