On Thursday 11 September 2008, "Gauthier, Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a job that loads a large table, but then has to "update" about > half the records for various reasons. My perception of what happens on > update for a particular recors is... > > - a new record will be inserted with the updated value(s). > > - The old record is marked as being obselete. >
What you might consider doing is loading the data into a temp table, updating it there, then copying that data into the final destination. Depending on the indexes involved, you might even find this to be faster. -- Alan -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
