Pedro Alves wrote: > Hi. > > > I have a doubt: > > If I make: > > update stockline set status=3 where id IN (select id from lap_mpdetail_view where > lap=3976) > > postgres makes an Seq Scan on stockline. > > when stockline is big, it is better to make an select id from > lap_mpdetail_view where lap=3976) and programaticaly build the query of the > type update stockline set status=3 where id=X or id=Y or... > > > There must be a better way... EXISTS also make a seq scan > > update stockline set status=3 where id = (select id from > lap_mpdetail_view where lap=3976); returns more than one tuple
1. I assume you have an index on stockline.id: CREATE INDEX i_stockline1 ON stockline(id); 2. I've found the following syntax to perform better, although I'm not sure of its portability: UPDATE stockline SET status = 3 WHERE stockline.id = lap_mpdetail_view.id AND lap_mpdetail_view.lap = 3976; 3. I assume you've executed VACUUM ANALYZE. 4. I assume that stockline is not a small table where the query optimizer determined a sequential scan would be faster. Hope that helps, Mike Mascari [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly