Hi all, I'm running a quite large website which has its own forums. They are currently heavily used and I'm getting performance issues. Most of them are due to repeated UPDATE queries on a "flags" table. This "flags" table has more or less the following fields: UserID - TopicID - LastReadAnswerID The flags table keeps track of every topic a member has visited and remembers the last answer which was posted at this moment. It allows the user to come back a few days after and immediately jump to the last answer he has not read. My problem is that everytime a user READS a topic, it UPDATES this flags table to remember he has read it. This leads to multiple updates at the same time on the same table, and an update can take a few seconds. This is not acceptable for my users. Question: what is the general rule of thumb here? How would you store this information? Thanks a lot in advance. Mathieu. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
