On 8/10/07, Mark Steben <msteben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Hi Scott, thanks for the response. > 4. The business reason for the update: we are replacing within a > query a > COALESCE function that gave us the most recent date between 3 dates. We > Are instead doing the COALESCE as part of a new update trigger, populating > the New date fields with the most recent dates and referencing the new dates So this is a one time data migration. OK, then I'm no as worried about the business case being a bit crazy. > 5. We are planning an upgrade to 8.2.4 in the near future – hopefully > in a couple months. Cool. Start testing now. You'd be surprised how many test cases you'll find where your laptop running 8.2 will outrun your server running 7.x... Nothing too out of the ordinary in your schema, but those multi-dimensional arrays might be a bit expensive, especially for updates. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
