On Mar 27, 8:28 am, laurenz.a...@xxxxxxxxxx ("Albe Laurenz") wrote: > sam wrote: > > Iam trying to update a database table with approx 45000 rows. Iam not > > updating all rows at a time. Iam updating 60 rows at a given time for > > example. and this is happening in a FOR LOOP. A function that has the > > update statements is called within the loop. > > > The updates take too long.....is postgres slow in doing updates on > > large tables or is it because of the function call within the loop??? > > Could you post the functions and the EXPLAIN output > for the SQL statements in the functions? > > Yours, > Laurenz Albe > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-gene...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription:http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general Ok.... The table is a partition of a main table. Its schema is pretty straight forward with 10 columns. There is no Fk consistency or UPDATE CASCADE involved not atleast on the test table that iam using. I created indexes for colums used in the WHERE clause. It made the updating much faster. The function goes something like this: function getandsetimputedata() BEGIN LOOP for every row in the cursor //do some operations PERFORM update_data() end for END LOOP END function update_data() BEGIN EXECUTE the update statement EXCEPTION block END Any other suggestions how i can make this work faster. Sam -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general