> I've got a question: has anybody noticed in your production
> tables, that updates on existing rows take longer than inserts
> into those same tables?
Updates naturally take longer than inserts. Especially if you haven't
provided an index that allows the row(s) to be updated to be found
easily. Have you checked the EXPLAIN results for your problem queries?
regards, tom lane
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