Re: Trying to figure out why these queries are so slow

Hi,

just a guess: Counting is slow, since it needs to check all rows. Explained here:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Counting

  Thomas Güttler

Tim Uckun wrote:
> I have two tables. Table C has about 300K records in it. Table E has
> about a million records in it.  Today I tried to run this query.
>
> update C
>              set result_count = X.result_count
>             from C
>             inner join (select  c_id, count(c_id) as result_count
>                           from E
>                           where c_id is not null
>                           group by c_id) as  X
>             on C.id = X.c_id
>
> All the fields mentioned are indexed. In the case of Table C it's the
> primary key. In the case table E it's just an index (non unique).
>
> I let this query run for about three hours before I cancelled it.
> ...

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