Re: [GENERAL] design question - repeated updates on temp or perm table.

2013-02-12 Thread René Romero Benavides
In general, temporary tables are way faster for writing than normal tables as they don't generate WAL records. On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 11:45:22 AM Little, Douglas wrote: Hi, Design question. Does it make a difference for a function to repeatedly update a temp table verses the perman

[GENERAL] design question - repeated updates on temp or perm table.

2013-02-12 Thread Little, Douglas
Hi, Design question. Does it make a difference for a function to repeatedly update a temp table verses the permanent table? We are working in a data warehousing environment. We have daily etl that's used to update our dimension table which has approx. 500k rows. A dimension row holds all of the