Richard Huxton wrote:
Chris wrote:
db=# UPDATE email_upd_test SET domainname=substring(email from
position('@' in email));
UPDATE 1000000
Time: 43796.030 ms
I think I'm I/O bound from my very limited understanding of vmstat.
Well, 43 seconds to update 1 million rows suggests your real query
should be complete in a few minutes, even if your real table has more
columns.
Yep.
I think I have solved it though - the server was checkpointing so much
not much else was going on.
I didn't have logging set up before but it's up and running now and I
was getting
LOG: checkpoints are occurring too frequently (26 seconds apart)
HINT: Consider increasing the configuration parameter
"checkpoint_segments".
So I increased that from 10 to 30 and it finished:
UPDATE 3500101
Time: 146513.349 ms
Thanks for all the help :)
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