Re: Massive table (500M rows) update nightmare

Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Leo Mannhart <leo.mannhart@beecom.ch> wrote:
>
>> You could also try to just update the whole table in one go, it is
>> probably faster than you expect.
>
> That would, of course, bloat the table and indexes horribly.  One
> advantage of the incremental approach is that there is a chance for
> autovacuum or scheduled vacuums to make space available for re-use
> by subsequent updates.
>
> -Kevin
>

ouch...
thanks for correcting this.
... and forgive an old man coming from Oracle ;)

Leo