Patrick Hatcher <pathat@comcast.net> writes:
> I'm running an update statement on about 12 million records using the
> following query:
> Update table_A
> set F1 = b.new_data
> from table_B b
> where b.keyfield = table_A.keyfield
What does EXPLAIN show for this?
Do you have any foreign key references to table_A from elsewhere?
regards, tom lane