am Mon, dem 19.05.2008, um 23:56:27 -0600 mailte kevin kempter folgendes: > Hi all; > > I have a query that does this: > > update tab_x set (inactive_dt, last_update_dt) = > ((select run_dt from current_run_date), (select run_dt from > current_run_date)) > where > cust_id::text || loc_id::text in > (select cust_id::text || loc_id::text from summary_tab); > > > The current_run_date table has only 1 row in it > the summary_tab table has 0 rows and the tab_x had 450,000 rows > > The update takes 45min even though there is no rows to update. > I have a compound index (cust_id, loc_id) on both tables (summary_tab > and tab_x) > > How can I speed this up ? Please show us more details, for instance the data-types for cust_id and loc_id. Wild guess: these columns are INT-Values and you have an Index. Okay, but in the quere there is a CAST to TEXT -> Index not used. Verfify this with EXPLAIN. Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net