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Re: UPDATE on two large datasets is very slow

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On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 08:24:46PM -0700, Steve Gerhardt wrote:
> I've been working for the past few weeks on porting a closed source
> BitTorrent tracker to use PostgreSQL instead of MySQL for storing
> statistical data, but I've run in to a rather large snag. The tracker in
> question buffers its updates to the database, then makes them all at
> once, sending anywhere from 1-3 MiB of query data. With MySQL, this is
> accomplished using the INSERT INTO...ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE query,
> which seems to handle the insert/update very quickly; generally it only
> takes about a second for the entire set of new data to be merged.

For the record, this is what the SQL MERGE command is for... I don't
think anyone is working on implementing that though...

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.

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