Re: [GENERAL] slow update but have an index

2001-08-17 Thread Feite Brekeveld
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:40:32PM +0200, Feite Brekeveld wrote: > > > Well, an index speeds it up, but that times 80,000 will still take a while. > > > Is there any trickery or will this work? > > > > > > update accounting set status = 'C'; > > > > > > If so, that

Re: [GENERAL] slow update but have an index

2001-08-17 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:40:32PM +0200, Feite Brekeveld wrote: > > Well, an index speeds it up, but that times 80,000 will still take a while. > > Is there any trickery or will this work? > > > > update accounting set status = 'C'; > > > > If so, that will be much faster. > > No that will not w

Re: [GENERAL] slow update but have an index

2001-08-17 Thread Feite Brekeveld
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:08:29PM +0200, Feite Brekeveld wrote: > > Now this table has about 80,000 records. I need to update 74,000 status > > fields. So I made a dump, and hacked the dump into SQL statements like: > > > > update accounting set status = 'C' where

Re: [GENERAL] slow update but have an index

2001-08-17 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:08:29PM +0200, Feite Brekeveld wrote: > Now this table has about 80,000 records. I need to update 74,000 status > fields. So I made a dump, and hacked the dump into SQL statements like: > > update accounting set status = 'C' where seqno = 1566385; > > and the other

[GENERAL] slow update but have an index

2001-08-17 Thread Feite Brekeveld
Hi, I have a table with no relations to other tables. It has a sequence number field (integer) and a status field being a char. There is a unique index on the seqno field. Now this table has about 80,000 records. I need to update 74,000 status fields. So I made a dump, and hacked the dump into