Thanks Andreas. That was a quick response. So way 1 must be quicker.


am  10.03.2006, um 10:46:39 -0500 mailte Emi Lu folgendes:
Hello,

postgresql 8.0.1, in a plpgsql function

To update columns' values in a table (without OID), if I ran:
1. "update table1 set col1 = ..., col2 = ... ... col100 ="

or
2.
"update table1 set col1 = "
...
"update table1 set col100 = "

way 1 only has one disk I/O, right? While way 2 is more time consuming since there is disk I/O when a update is ran.

Because of MVCC every UPDATE is practical a DELETE + INSERT.
Way1: you have only one DELETE+INSERT, Way2 one hundred, and you have
100 dead rows until the next VACUUM.


HTH, Andreas


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